Syrian History

1939 - 1945

President Taj al-Din al-Hasani with General Charles Catroux during a meeting in Damascus in August 1942.	General Charles de Gaulle arriving in Damascus on July 27, 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle arriving in Damascus in 1942.	General Charles de Gaulle in Damascus after the Free French toppled the Vichy regime in France.
General Charles de Gaulle, head of the Free French movement, in Damascus after the Allied victory in France in 1941.	General Charles de Gaulle with President Taj al-Din al-Hasani and General Charles Catroux in Damascus in August 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle in Suwayda, the capital of the Druze Mountain, being greeted by Druze notables in 1942.	General Charles de Gaulle in Suwayda, the capital of the Druze Mountain in 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle during his tour of Syria, greeted by little children in Homs.	General Charles de Gaulle in Damascus, attending the funeral of two French officers who died in Syria during the French Mandate.
General Charles de Gaulle, head of the Free French movement, in Damascus after the Allied victory in France.	General Charles de Gaulle, and President Taj al-Din al-Hasani in 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle during his tour of Syria in 1942.	General Charles de Gaulle during his visit to Dayr al-Zur, the Syrian town on the Euphrates River, in 1942.
Children playing in a school courtyard in the 1940s.	A group of women attending a conference for female emancipation in the 1940s, visiting the Azm Palace.
A group of liberal, unveiled women from Damascus pictured together in the early 1940s.	A group of school girls studying in the couryard of Maktab Anbar.
An all-girls Nursing School in Damascus in the early 1940s.	General Henri Dentz, the new High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, with Syrian Head of State Bahij al-Khatib.

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