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Submitted by Anonyme on 2015-11-08T17:55:31+01:00

Naissance de l’AFP

Liberated France’s first dispatch is
issued on August 20, 1944.
OFI is renamed Agence France-Presse.

Timeline date début

1944,8,20

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