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EPILOGUE Century network survives to-day [1958] as a memory of old glory and courage. In Caen and a few other towns along the Wall there is still...
They arrived outside the church of St. Etienne at four o'clock to find the whole city insane with joy. Posters of de Gaulle flapped on every wall...
The sketch map referred to in the above extract... [IMG]
The darkness was so thick at first that Dumis was straining his eyes to see. That grew better after a minute but it was still hard to think...
I have been trying to locate Gille's post-invasion HQ in Louvigny based on the above description. Can't be sure, but I'm wondering if its up here...
Presently the man went away, and Dumis hastened back to the command post, a hundred yards distant up the dusty main street. Slipping through the...
Leon Dumis did not hear the messages. For the last six nights he had not left the batteries at Ifs. The farmhouse where he had been billeted...
Throughout May, 1944, the Century-Secret Army situation along and behind the Wall was as follows: Girard was in hiding near Fontainebleau, and...
I see Lucien Briere's death is stated here to be the 3rd May 1944. The French page here, however, seems to attribute the assassination to a...
Dusk was falling as Girard left the cafe, walking with the brisk rolling sailor's gait through that quarter of Paris that he loved above all...
Rather flushed, Girard cut in, "Excuse me, man Colonel, but I don't agree. Even if such a thing were possible, using as many Secret Army men in...
It was soon plain to them what Rommel was trying to do. His aim was to cover every possible landing-beach between high and low water marks with...
The days that followed were wrapped in mystery. On the Friday [next day, 17th December 1943] at 10 a.m. Himbert had been due to contact Rivalin,...
To continue... At the same time, in his small motor-cycle repair shop on the Avenue de Creully, Maurice Himbert, the courier, was wiping the...
After at bit of Googling, I found the Belgian Georges Henri Masuy's correct name to be George Delfanne (1913-1947). His Wiki page is here. It...
How it happened is on record. Why will always be debatable. Some said the Gestapo's monitor service at the Central Telephone Exchange intercepted...
There was the incident of the Transmitter at Ste. Mere-figlise. In that village Madame Maury, the charming, self-possessed wife of the...
I have traced as best I can the route taken by Dany and Jacques Moulines in trying to shake off the Gestapo agent trailing them on the 8th...
The location of the meeting held on Wednesday 8th September 1943 at 29 Rue Claude Bernard in Paris is shown below: [IMG] I assume the fifth floor...
Nobody, least of all Duchez, was getting much sleep now. For one thing Dewavrin was asking too many questions, and Girard, who received the...