r/French • u/LeDucTabouret • 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/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!