On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence, August 15, 1944, where the colonial troops, memories and portrait of Joseph CONOMBO, former of the 9th Colonial Infantry Division were distinguished.
In Marseille, Monsieur MOUTET, Minister of France of Outremer, came to greet and reward 3500 Senegalese who fought for France. The Minister also welcomed the return of the Pasteur, a liner, the most beautiful of the large commercial units remaining in France and which will bring these soldiers back to Dakar.
Encounter Mali with Lieutenant Tiecoura Doumbia, former Senegalese tirailleur, who evokes his memories of the Second World War. It describes the Monument to the Heroes of the Black Army, a statue erected in Bamako in honour of these African fighters.
Former soldier in Indochina, Boubala Ndiaye, is deprived, like hundreds of other Senegalese tirailleurs, of the pension of veteran frozen after decolonization. He testifies.
At the Elysée, the President of the Republic, François HOLLANDE, paid tribute to the Senegalese infantrymen who had volunteered in the French army by reconciling French nationality to 28 of them, who had lost it following the independence of their country of origin. Commentary on factual images, INA archive images alternating with the interview of veterans Daouda FAYE BADJI, Massamba NDIAYE and Yoro DIAO and an excerpt from the speech delivered by François HOLLANDE.
Testimonies of Senegalese veterans requesting recognition of their status by France. It was in November 2001 that the French Council of State asked the government to recognize them the same rights as French fighters...
Report on the role played by French colonial troops during the Second World War on the occasion of an exhibition at the Grand Palais entitled "La France d'Outre-Mer dans la guerre" and inaugurated by Mr Paul GIACCOBI, Minister of the Colonies, and by Admiral André LEMONNIER.