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🇫🇷 Miss Dior Late afternoon 6 July 1944, Catherine Dior, Resistance member and sister of fashion designer Christian, is arrested by the Gestapo when she goes to meet a member of her network at Place du Trocadero in Paris... 1/7

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🇫🇷 Occupied Paris - 23 July 1944 19-year old Madeleine Riffaud cycles along the Parisian cobblestone streets. She has a gun and has been ordered to take the war to the enemy. She stops on the Pont de Solferino. There is a German soldier there, watching the Seine. Madeleine waits

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Madeleine was demobbed after Paris was liberated, despite wanting to carry on fighting, but this was refused due to her medical history. She suffered years of depression and PTSD from her time spent in the hands of the Gestapo. To tell the rest of her life story would require

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🇺🇸 From a Mustang cockpit to execution alongside SAS soldiers. On 10 June 1944, 2 Lt Lincoln Bundy was flying a mission with his 486th Fighter Squadron over Normandy and had just finished strafing German vehicles near Crulai (61300) when he was bounced by an Me 109 flown by

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99-year old Madeleine Riffaud seen here a couple of days ago - at 19 she shot a German soldier on a bridge in Paris on 23 July 1944. Caught when cycling away, she was tortured by the Gestapo, and then escaped from a train carrying her towards a death camp. She rejoined a

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🇫🇷 Occupied Paris - 20 July 1943 Geneviève de Gaulle, niece of Charles, enters a Parisian bookshop that is used as a dead drop by her Resistance network. Unknown to her, the Gestapo are watching and this will be her last day of freedom and the start of almost two years of

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5 June 1944 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦 9.15 pm French time, the opening notes of Beethoven's 5th, forming the Morse for V for Victory, sound across the airwaves of BBC's Radio Londres. The speaker, Franck Bauer, then reads out personal messages that are known to individual Resistance groups...

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Catherine and Hervé would go on to set up a thriving flower supply business in Provence. In 1947, in tribute to his courageous sister, Christian named his first perfume after her - Miss Dior. 7/7

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🇫🇷 On 22 October 1941, 17-year old French student, Guy Môquet was taken from the camp at Châteaubriant where he was held captive and led to a nearby quarry, at 4 pm, he was shot alongside other French patriots. Beforehand, he was allowed to write a short letter. 1/8

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It is with great sadness that we have learnt that Phyllis Latour, the last of the F-Section Special Operations Executive women agents has passed away at the age of 102. Thank you for all you did in helping France retrieve her freedom.

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🧵Happy birthday French D-Day veteran Léon Gautier celebrates his 100th birthday today. 1/6

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27 October 1942 - 17-year old German Helmuth Hübener is guillotined at Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, for the crime of resisting the Nazi regime. He was the youngest German to be executed for acts of resistance. In one of his pamphlets he wrote... 1/3

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"I have loved the truth" On the evening of 16 June 1944, keys turned in the cell doors at the notorious Montluc prison in Lyon. Thirty French Resistance prisoners are led away to waiting trucks - among them is 57-year old historian Marc Bloch. 1/6

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🇫🇷 Sad news has arrived of the passing of Philippe de Gaulle (son of Charles) at the age of 102. He joined the Free French Navy in 1940 and also served as an auxilliary fireman during the London Blitz. He served on a corvette during the Battle of the Atlantic and also on MTBs. He

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🇺🇸 Cherish them, for their numbers dwindle.

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. @USArmy #WWII Veteran Dennis Boldt landed on #UtahBeach in 1944. Today he walked through the Normandy American Cemetery with cast members from Band of Brothers & paused to meet soldiers from the 207th Military Intelligence Brigade. #DDay80 @US_EUCOM @USArmyEURAF @walkamongheroes

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Major John Errington, celebrated his 104th birthday yesterday. He fought at Le Paradis in late May 1940 with the 1st Bn. Royal Scots, scene of the infamous SS massacre of 2nd Bn. Royal Norfolk Rgt, POWs. #veteransfoundation

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🇫🇷 Who will remember me? My name is Maurice Dampierre and 80 years ago today I was tied to a stake in a damp clearing in the fortress of Mont Valérien overlooking Paris, and shot as I sang out the words of the Marseillaise. I was arrested by French police when a list of FTP

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🇫🇷 On 12 September 1944, Robert Benoist's life ended in the dank cellar of the Buchenwald concentration camp crematorium. He was hanged from a hook on the wall along with other comrades who had fought in the shadows for their country's honour. 1/9

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Happy 102nd birthday to SOE F-Section agent, Phyllis Latour. She was parachuted into Normandy on 1 May 1944 and worked as a clandestine radio operator for the SOE Scientist circuit.

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🇺🇸 "I'm right where I want to be." B-17 pilot, Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal, not only volunteered to fly, but instead of going home after completing 25 missions, requested to continue and flew another 27. "I'm a Jew, but it wasn't just that. Hitler was a menace to decent people

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🇫🇷 The French spy and Hitler's V-weapons On this eve of the V1 flying bomb onslaught against London (the first 5 were launched on 13 June 1944 as a test), it is a good time to tell the story of a young French woman without whom the terrifying weapons may have indeed been

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10.30 am 16 August 1944, units of the 7th US Armored Division enter the cathedral city of Chartres on the road to Paris. 18-year old Resistance fighter Simone Segouin is there alongside her comrades still fighting German pockets of resistance. 1/7

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🇫🇷 On the evening of 5 September 1944, 29-year old French secret agent and radio operator, Elisabeth Torlet, came face to face with German soldiers near the village of Blussans next to the Rhône–Rhine Canal. Her comrades found her the next day on a lane near some woods. She had

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🇫🇷 She chose the storm... and love In the early hours of 18 June 1944 a further twelve French SAS soldiers are dropped into Saint-Marcel, Brittany as part of Operation Dingson that had begun during the night of 5/6 June to bolster the local Resistance groups and spread chaos

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An act of mercy in the skies. 80 years ago today, Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler closes in on B-17 'Ye Old Pub' and seeing the crippled bomber's mauled crew, instead escorts the bomber to the coast and from where it was able to reach England. Stigler emigrated to Canada after the

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🇮🇪 A very happy 105th birthday to former RAF Battle of Britain pilot John Allman Hemingway, DFC, AE. Born in Dublin on 17 July 1919, he flew during the Battle of France and over Dunkirk, and was one of the Few over the skies of southern England during those tumultuous days of the

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🇳🇱 🇬🇧 Arnhem - 21 September 1944 With fighting now ceased at the bridge over the Rhine, Germans mop up and begin moving forces towards the remaining British airborne pocket at Oosterbeek and south towards Nijemegen. British POWs are marched off - one will escape and find refuge

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🇺🇸 🇫🇷 Congratulations to Normandy veteran Harold Terens (100) and Jeanne Swerlin (96) who tied the knot today in Carentan, Normandy.

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🧵 #OTD in 1941, 17-year old French student, Guy Môquet, was taken from the camp at Châteaubriant where he was held captive and led to a nearby quarry. At 4 pm, he was tied to a stake and shot alongside other French patriots. Beforehand, he was allowed to write a short letter. 1/8

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The day the soldiers came... 21 May 1944 It is 5 p.m. in the sleepy village of Frayssinet-le-Gélat (46114 Lot) when two columns of SS Das-Reich division vehicles breaks the calm. The vehicles continue on a little further then halt on the road to Cahors. 90 minutes later, more SS

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Some incredible finds recently in Normandy after a bricked up part of a cellar was broken through. The building had been used a Kommandantur. Behind the walled partition was an incredible array of WW2 radio equipment, including five complete British Type 3 Mk. 2 (B2) spy sets.

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🇫🇷 A happy 100th birthday to Resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud... here is a short thread on her wartime years and what she was up to in Paris this day 80 years ago. 1/7

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During the night of 5/6 June, the Resistance will carry out over 1,000 acts of sabotage, knocking out phone lines and blowing up railways, thus playing a vital and often overlooked role in the success of D-Day. 4/4

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With the Paris Olympics about to start, here is a short thread on just some of the 403 known Olympians who lost their lives during the Second World War. 1/9

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The last of the few - from the Battle of Britain to Normandy 84 years ago saw the start of a sustained Luftwaffe air campaign against the British Isles that would become known as "The Battle of Britain". One of the fighter pilots, John 'Paddy' Hemingway is still with us and in a

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This she did, arriving in Paris on 28 May 1945, ill, emaciated, and unrecognised by her brother who was waiting on the platform. In the autumn, still shattered mentally and physically, she was able to travel south and meet Hervé who had survived. 6/7

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🇫🇷 80 years ago today, 20 year-old Resistance member Claude Waroquier, is given a pencil and paper to write a last letter. He is then taken from his prison cell in Fresnes, where he has endured months of privation, and taken to the execution ground at Mont Valérien. 1/4

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In 2002, some of Bundy's cousins came to France and met Serge Guillon, now 73 years old, and he had something to pass on to them, a small item that he had been given by the pilot on the morning of 1 July 1944 - it was the small escape compass that Linclon Bundy had used to get as

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🇬🇧 80 years ago today, 19-year old Roy Hayward was in his Sherman tank attacking near Fontenay in Normandy, his nineteenth day in combat since landing at Gold Beach with the Sherwood Rangers on D-Day. Probing down a lane, the tank was struck by a shell and Roy lost his legs.

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"Your brother escaped us, you will not escape us." 80 years today, Elfriede Maria Scholz, the sister of "All Quiet On The Western Front" author, Erich Maria Remarque (Remark), was executed by the Nazis in Berlin. 1/5

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In the early hours of 9 June 1944, Algerian-born Free French secret agent and wireless operator Eugénie Djendi parachutes into occupied France along with George Penchenier and Marcel Corbusier. Arriving at Pierrefitte farm near Sully-sur-Loire ( Loiret 45600), they are unaware

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🇫🇷 To all appearances, 37-year old Claude Grangeat was just another farmer on a plateau near the town of Chambéry near the Swiss border. However, Claude also hid weapons for the local resistance group. 80 years ago today, German soldiers, acting on a tip off, beat him up before

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The destruction of the Nova Khakovka dam and the subsequent floods reveal remains of soldiers from the Second World War.

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80 years ago today, this extraordinarily brave woman jumped out of a Halifax bomber over occupied France. Working for the SOE 'Monk' circuit, she would be arrested in March 44. Eliane Plewman was 26 when she was executed at Dachau on 13 September 1944.

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🇬🇧 At around this time on 7 December 1942 - Five 'Cockle' kayaks manned by Royal Marines begin to make their way up the Gironde estuary after launching from a submarine. Their target is German shipping in the port areas of Bordeaux. After five nights of paddling up the wide

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The post war period was much kinder to Geneviève. She found love and married a former resister, Bernard Anthonioz, and they married in May 46 and would go on to have four children. She became president of an association for former deportees and ensured that the evils of Nazism

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🇫🇷 80 years ago today, 25-Year old Resistance member Jean-Paul Léri, was shot by the German authorities at the sinister Montluc prison in Lyon. Today we remember this patriot who gave his all for his country. 1/6

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Before Oradour - 9 June 1944 At approximately 8 p.m. French time, a civilian car, requisitioned the day before in Limoges, drives up through the village of Sauviat-sur-Vige and begins the long descent towards St Léonard de Noblat. The man at the wheel is SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut

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Carve their names with pride #OTD in 1944, SOE agents Eliane Plewman (26), Yolande Beekman (32), Madeleine Damerment (26) and Noor Inayat Khan (30) were executed at Dachau concentration camp. Made to kneel, they held hands as they were shot in the back of the neck.

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🇬🇧 Abducting a German general 26 April 1944, Special Operations Executive operatives in occupied Crete don German military police uniforms and stop the car in which Heinrich Kreipe, commander of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division, is travelling. 1/3

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Geneviève Pouille who passed away today aged 95. She was a member of the Lille-region 'Voix du Nord' Resistance group that she joined aged 14 along with her parents.

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🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇧🇪 Carve their names with pride 9-14 September 1944 was a black period for Special Operations Executive F-Section agents. Today we honour those brave men whose lives ended at Buchenwald concentration camp where they were slowly hanged in the crematorium cellar. We will

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The day after On the evening of June 10, Limoges is awash with rumours of a terrible catastrophe that has happed at Oradour-sur-Glane, just over 13 miles to the west. These rumours are backed up with the smell of smoke that wafts across the city. The following day, two men take

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"My dearest parents, forgive me for having put my country before you." 🇫🇷 On 23 April 1945, Paulette Duhalde died of illness and exhaustion in the Ravensbrück concentration camp - she was 24 years old. 1/8

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🇫🇷 Toulouse - Saturday, 22 July 1944 Ariadna Scriabina (Knout) and two other French Resistance members go to an appartment used as a dead drop at 11 rue de la Pomme in the city of Toulouse. She is carrying false identification papers for other Resistance members. What they do not

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🇫🇷 In the summer of 44, 18-year old Micheline Blum-Picard was busy working with a group of Resistance fighters deep behind the fighting taking place in Normandy, but her clandestine work had begun two years before when she was just 16. 1/7

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23 June 1944 - Normandy Jacqueline Simon-Montcorgé and 59 other French women volunteers of the Mission militaire de liaison administrative (MMLA) landed at Gold Beach near Ver-sur-Mer - their role was to help civilians impacted by the fighting in Normandy, and later beyond.

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Taken to 180 Rue de la Pompe and tortured, Catherine did not give up any names and on 15 August 1944 was put on the last train for Ravensbrück. Her family never gave up trying to find her and Christian consulted a medium who insisted that she would return alive. 5/7

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🇵🇱 1 August 1944. Polish men and women in Warsaw rise up against their enemy and display a bravery beyond words. Eternal glory to them.

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10 June 1944 - Oradour-sur-Glane - 4 pm The killing begins. In the church, the women and children are machine-gunned, and grenades are thrown in. The church is set alight and those not dead are burned alive. Marguerite Rouffanche is one of the women trapped inside, her 18-year

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🇫🇷 Caen 6 June 1944. With the noise of the battle raging along the nearby coastline, incarcerated members of the Resistance in Caen prison listen with hope and the promise of the long-awaited liberation. Boots sound along the corridors and keys are turned. @dday80 1/5

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In 1941, she was in Cannes and it was there that she met and fell in love with Hervé des Charbonneries, a member of the F2 Franco-Polish resistance network that specialized in gathering intelligence on German troop movements. 2/7

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🇦🇺 80 years ago today, Sergeant Leonard Siffleet, an Australian commando with the M Special Unit tasked with reconnaissance, was executed along with two other comrades by Japanese soldiers after being captured in New Guinea. Lest we forget.

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4 August 1944 Russian born Princess Véra Obolensky was guillotined by the Nazis at Ploetzensee prison, Berlin. She began working for the French Resistance in late 1940. Arrested in Paris in late 43, she was sentenced to death in Arras in May 1944 and then deported to Germany.

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🇫🇷 A Companion of the Liberation 27 June 1944 - 21-year old Jacques Voyer is taken to this clearing north of the village of Chavannes (Chartres). Barely able to stand after weeks of torture, he is tied to a wooden post and shot. Here is his story. 1/11

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16 August 1944, units of the 7th US Armored Division enter the cathedral city of Chartres on the road to Paris. 18-year old Resistance fighter Simone Segouin is there alongside her comrades still fighting German pockets of resistance. Simone passed away in 2023 aged 97.

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🇫🇷 Today France says farewell to one of its sons, a man truly deserving of the word 'hero' in an age where its meaning has been devalued. Léon Gautier, the last of the 177 French Kieffer commandos, who passed away four days ago aged 100, will receive a national tribute today. 1/4

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10 June 1944 - Sussac, Limousin Violette Szabo's last day of freedom. Following the previous day's decision to send Violette to meet up with another SOE operative, a Citroën traction pulls up outside the grocery store that is home to the SOE Salesman II team. 1/8

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Catherine typed up the reports which were then sent on to London. On 29 March 1944 , Admiral Trolley de Prévaux, head of the F2 network, was arrested in Marseilles with his wife. Both were later shot in Lyon in August 44. The network split up and its members went into hiding. 3/7

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🇨🇦 7 June 1944 Private Clarence David Lapierre of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion died on this day of wounds that he sustained on D-Day after jumping on the east flank of the invasion. He was 20 years old.

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🇫🇷 8 June 1944 Violette Szabo wakes up in Madame Rebière's store in the small village of Sussac (87194) near Limoges. It has been a short night after being parachuted in during the early hours of the morning with her other SOE colleagues. After a welcome breakfast, the team

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Catherine sometimes stayed with Christian, who knew nothing about her resistance activities. On 6 July 44, she had a meeting with a friend from her network on the Trocadero esplanade in Paris, but waiting instead were tipped-off French Gestapo agents. 4/7

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🇬🇧 ‘Winds of Heaven blow softly here where lies sleeping those we loved so dear.’ 21-year old twin brothers Claude (left) and Thomas Gronert are killed in action just seconds apart in Arnhem on this day eighty years ago. Lest we forget.

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It is with the deepest sorry that we announce the passing of Robert Hébras this morning. The last witness and survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 10 June 1944. The Limousin weeps today.

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🇫🇷 Happy 102nd birthday to Philippe de Gaulle (son of Charles). He joined the Free French Navy in 1940 and also served as an auxilliary fireman during the London Blitz. He served on a corvette during the Battle of the Atlantic and also on MTBs. He then went on to lead French

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🇬🇧 Lost in an ocean of sand On 28 June 1942, Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping of 260 Sqn, took off from Biur el Baheira, Egypt, in a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk flying it to Wadi Natruna for repairs. He was never seen again. In April 2012, men from a Polish oil exploration company

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Mort pour la France - 15 June 1944 80 years ago today, Célestin Briend was shot by the occupation forces at the Balard shooting range in Paris. He was 36-year old building materials merchant in Brittany and supplied the German Todt organisation with concrete used in the

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🇫🇷 The price of freedom - 25 May 1944. German forces surround Resistance fighters from the Henri-Bourgogne maquis in woods near the village of Lantilly (21140 Côte-d'or). With no way out and vastly outnumbered, the French men surrender to a locally-based Feldgendarmerie unit

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🇭🇺 "I played a number in a game. The dice have rolled. I have lost" Today we remember Hannah Szenes, a Jewish-Hungarian Special Operations Executive agent who was executed in Budapest, the city of her birth, on this day in 1944. She was 23-years old and had been parachuted into

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@Murphy4Mike Nobody who passed through the hands of the Gestapo and then on to the death camps was lucky... just a survivor... forever changed. The lucky ones were those who never had to experience such horrors.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷 6 January 1944 OSS agent and USMC Captain, Peter Ortiz, jumps into the Drôme area of occupied France as part of the 'Union' interallied mission with the objective of ascertaining the strength of the French Resistance in the Drôme, Isère, Savoie and Ain areas. 1/6

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🇫🇷 2/3 February 1944 - Brittany - Occupied France As night fell on 2 February, thirty two men, members of the Resistance and downed Allied aircrew, prepared to leave France and rendezvous with further north with a British MTB. Among the men waiting on the beach was giant of the

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🇫🇷 He resisted to the very end... 80 years ago today, Resistance leader Claude Bonnier, took his own life in a Gestapo cell in Bordeaux rather than run the risk of talking under torture. He had hidden a cyanide capsule in his belt, but when he tried to get to it, it fell on the

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🇿🇦 21 July 1942, South-African POW, Job Maseko MM places a home-made IED in the hold of a German freighter in Tobruk harbour. The ensuing blaze destroys the ship. He later escapes and walks through the desert for three weeks before reaching Allied lines and resuming his war.

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🇫🇷 11 August 1944 Free French secret agent and wireless operator Eugénie Djendi,was captured as soon as she hit the ground on 9 April 44, this day sees her deported from Fresnes prison in Paris to Ravensbrück. She will be murdered there on 19 January 1945.

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🇬🇧 🇫🇷 28 January 1947 Four-year-old daughter Tania Szabo is presented with her mother Violette's posthumous George Cross by King George VI at Buckingham Palace. Special Operations Executive agent Violette was twice parachuted into occupied France, captured on 10 June south of

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🇫🇷 15 August 1944 Grocer's assistant Esther Poggio was just 22 years old when she was executed by the Germans in Nice along with other hostages on a day when liberation was so close at hand. She had been active with the Reims-Jenny-Coty Resistance group.

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🇮🇪 SOE agent Maureen Patricia (Paddy) O'Sullivan parachuted into the Lot department in the early hours of 23 March 1944. She was badly concussed when hitting the ground and took some time to recover. Born in Dublin in 1918, she was educated in France and Belgium and was fluent

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28 September 1943 - SS Standartenführer Julius Ritter, in charge of the obligatory work service that sends French civilians to work in Germany, is assassinated in Paris by MOI-FTP (immigrant worker) Resistance fighters. 1/5

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"I die with a clean conscience and with the total conviction that tomorrow you will have a happier life and future than that of your mother." 🇫🇷 🇷🇴80 years ago today, Olga Bancic was decapitated by axe at Stuttgart prison. Born in Romania, she had arrived in France in 1938 and

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🇺🇸 18 June 1944 PFC Lee Marvin, fighting on Saipan with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division is wounded during the attack on Mount Tapochau. Shrapnel hits him in the buttocks, severing the sciatic nerve, and a foot is also seriously wounded. He is one of

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"The worst traitor them all." 🧵 #OTD in 1946, fugitive British traitor Harold Cole met his end at the hands of French police - bleeding out on the bed of his squalid Paris one-room appartment. 1/9

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🇫🇷 A hell of a birthday You're a young woman in Paris and today, Wednesday 23 August 1944, is your 20th birthday - so how do spend it? Well, if you're Madeleine Riffaud, you take a group of Resistance fighters and go and kick some Nazi ass... 1/7

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Wishing Tania Szabo a very happy 82nd birthday. 80 years ago today, her mother Violette Szabo was parachuted back into occupied France with her SOE team in an area crawling with SS. Her father, Etienne, was killed during El-Alemein in 1942 fighting with Free French forces.

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Unbroken 🇫🇷 80 years today, a man crashed onto the pavement outside the Parisian Gestapo headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch,. Pierre Brossolette had endured days of torture. Left alone for a few moments, he managed to climb out of a window and threw himself out rather than break

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Eighty years ago today, 14-year old Resistance member Henrio Mathurin was murdered by German troops that shot him down as he tried to escape from an encircled farm. His funeral was attended by over three thousand people. Henrio is the youngest recipient of the Ordre de la

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🇫🇷 The last of the French commandos to land on Sword Beach on D-Day, Léon Gautier, passed away today at Caen at the age of 100. He is now with his comrades. Reposez en paix Monsieur Gautier.

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🇫🇷 'The weeping Frenchman' 15 September 1940, the colours of French regiments, disbanded after the defeat of June, parade through Marseille before leaving the port for North Africa. The faces of the onlookers are captured by Marcel de Renzis who is filming the event. 1/4

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🇫🇷 During the early hours of 30 January 1944, BCRA French agent 23-year old Marguerite Petitjean is parachuted from a 138 Sqn Halifax along with three male agents over DZ Ajusteur in the Drôme department. 1/7

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🇫🇷 81 years ago today, Jean Moulin, a giant of the French Resistance, was arrested at the home of Dr Dugoujon at Caluire-et-Cuire, Lyon. He was due to convene an important meeting to discuss the replacement of the recently arrested Général Delestraint. 1/3

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