He has won the National Medal of Honor, the French Legion of Honor, and multiple Emmys.
Online, she found a 2011 article from the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester describing Mann's being named a knight of the French Legion of Honor, a gesture bestowed by the French government to thank the veterans who helped liberate France.
The singer has received numerous international accolades, including the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Arts, Commander of the French Legion d'Honneur, the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Kahn's mother survived a Nazi death camp, his father the French Foreign Legion.
Only a few old fogeys seem to worry that the English team is now as cosmopolitan as the French foreign legion.
It's easy to forget he played French Foreign Legion soldier Rick' O'Connell.
He said the soldier from the French Foreign Legion was killed as special forces hunted militants hiding in the Ifoghas Massif - a remote mountain region in the Sahara.
Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.
"If back in the 1930s or '40s the French objected to portraying the Foreign Legion as being overly harsh on Africans, or the British were unhappy that they were being shown as too colonialistic, then Hollywood would make the edits it needed to market its product, " he said.
"I salute the Italian boy who came to Paris to earn his living and chose to become French, first in August 1914 when he lied about his age to sign up at 16 for the Foreign Legion to defend his adopted homeland, " the French president said in a statement.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2008, on a visit to Poland marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
In 2004 he was knighted for services to Parliament and awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 2006 for his contributions to Anglo-French relations.
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