![Front row: Generals Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, & Marie-Pierre Koenig, plus Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, taken after D-Day [Public domain]](https://6e0642.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WKoenig-300x246.jpg)
Front row: Generals Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, & Marie-Pierre Koenig, plus Air Marshal Arthur Tedder, taken after D-Day [Public domain]
This week in the war, General Charles de Gaulle appointed his London-based chief-of-staff, French general Marie-Pierre Koenig to head the FFI, the French Forces of the Interior (
Forces françaises de l’intérieur). Later, in June and with the full backing of the British and Americans, de Gaulle would expand Koenig’s FFI command to include all resistance movements within enemy-occupied France.
Koenig was already an experienced commander, having commanded French troops in Norway, North Africa and the Middle East.
