They Punished Him for Speaking Cajun French. Then It Saved His Life.

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He was punished as a boy for speaking French in Louisiana. Then, behind enemy lines in WW2 France, French was the only thing that kept him alive. August 17th, 1944. Sergeant Claude Galley, a Cajun from Louisiana, lies wounded on a mountain road in occupied southern France. His officer is dead, his radio doesn't work, and the Allied army is more than a hundred miles away. The only people who can save him speak the language his school tried to beat out of him. This is the untold true story of the OSS Operational Groups, the American commandos who parachuted into France to fight alongside the French Resistance, and of the Cajun soldiers whose "forbidden" language became their greatest weapon. From the 1921 Louisiana law that banned French in schools, to Operation PEG, the ambush at Alet, and the Cajun French revival that followed the war. In this WWII history documentary: - Why Cajun children were punished for speaking French in Louisiana schools - How the OSS recruited Cajun soldiers

Tags: ww2 history, french resistance, cajun french, oss operational groups, louisiana history, cajun history, operation dragoon, untold ww2 stories, cajun french speaking, cajun culture, louisiana creole