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One thing that struck me, that I didn't know before, was that West African Tirailleurs Senegalais, formed 65% of Free French Forces. On November 1, 1944, the French army in fact consisted of 550,000 men of whom 400,000 were from North Africa. Half of the French army at the time was Muslim! There was also a great number of foreign volunteers (Spanish, Caucasian and Asian brigaders, etc...) to whom can be added the French Interior Forces (the FFI, about 135,000 resistance fighters). General de Gaulle froze pensions for the non-French in 1959 and this was renewed in 1978, 1979 and 1981 resulted in pension allotments for foreign veterans of the French army transformed into indemnities not indexed to the cost of living. The nationals of the former colonies found that they were receiving only 3 to 30% of the amounts accorded their mainland French comrades.
I might note that we had a similar problem following WWI with our own citizen soldier/veterans.
PS - I apologize for the lack of leverguns. There are MAS36s and the usual run of German arms.