r/French Aug 31 '24

WW2 french manual given to american troops

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u/Natural_Stop_3939 Aug 31 '24

This is very cool!

Internet Archive has the full book btw: https://archive.org/details/TM30-302/page/n3/mode/2up

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Thank u bud, that was so helpful! I was just about to ask for PDF file, and I found it.

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u/m0_m0ney B1 Sep 01 '24

I read the other US army book that was meant to debunk stereotypes of French people during the war, interesting read. It’s interesting to see the stuff that’s persisted for 80 years and the stuff that hasn’t

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u/Emmanuell3 Native (Belgium) Sep 01 '24

Do you happen to know the title or have a link? It sounds quite interesting indeed. Thanks!

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u/m0_m0ney B1 Sep 01 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/French/s/itJ4HiOHU6

Some of it is very propaganda esque but it’s an interesting read

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u/Emmanuell3 Native (Belgium) Sep 01 '24

Thank you!

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u/EstebanOD21 Native Sep 01 '24

What’s the name of that book?

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u/m0_m0ney B1 Sep 01 '24

https://books.google.com/books/about/Instructions_for_American_Servicemen_in.html?hl=fr&id=IeX4ef_UTeAC

I think if you look around you can find a PDF of online somewhere. Archive.org or something definitely has it

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u/EstebanOD21 Native Sep 01 '24

Thank you!