 But, as of 2010, no war pension in arrears (almost 40 years) have been considered.In 2009, the BBC published documentary evidence that showed black colonial soldiers - who together with North African troops made up around two-thirds of Free French forces - were deliberately removed from the units that led the Allied advance to liberate Paris in 1944.General Charles de Gaulle made it clear that he wanted Free French troops to enter the French capital first.