Good post...The French had their collaborators but their Resistance were invaluable to us,not only in sabotage but in getting pilots back to England via Spain and Switzerland.
I would've been a 2 year old P.O.W. if they invaded Brighton....BTW I did manage to get Nazi stamps in a small job lot. The only real soldiers I saw apart from the British were Canadians before they were slaughtered at Dieppe...two of them took me ice skating,first time I had been out anywhere...