Serving in  , Ben Bella was decorated with five medals for actions including conflict at the 1944 in Italy and shooting down a German aircraft over , France. After the war he was elected to seniority within a group dedicated to ending French rule. Ben Bella died at his  home whilst asleep. He had been receiving hospital treatment for breathing problems. "Today we lost one of modern Algeria's bravest leaders," said Bouteflika, declaring eight days of mourning. Successive regimes detained Ben Bella first in prison and later his home from his deposition to 1980 when he left for Switzerland in exile, before being pardoned a decade later. He married journalist Zohra Sellami in 1971.
Serving in World War II , Ben Bella was decorated with five medals for actions including conflict at the 1944 in Italy and shooting down a German aircraft over , France. After the war he was elected to seniority within a group dedicated to ending French rule. Ben Bella died at his Algiers home whilst asleep. He had been receiving hospital treatment for breathing problems. "Today we lost one of modern Algeria's bravest leaders," said Bouteflika, declaring eight days of mourning. Successive regimes detained Ben Bella first in prison and later his home from his deposition to 1980 when he left for Switzerland in exile, before being pardoned a decade later. He married journalist Zohra Sellami in 1971.
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World War II
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Algiers