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French Village's Monument to a Gabonese WWII Hero

Written byJennifer Brea
Posted 1 June 2007 18 years ago

Association des gabonais d'Amiens writes about a monument in Airaines, a small French village of 2,000 people, dedicated to Charles Ntchorere, a Gabonese captain in the French army [Fr] who was taken prisoner and executed by German forces in 1940.

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