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everywhere on their tour, posing as his sister and doing most of the talking. The two of them had cover stories as salesmen for agricultural products. They had success in finding many recruits for resistance groups and farm fields suitable for clandestine landings of airplanes and drops of containers of arms. Borrel, Suttill, and the radio operator, Gilbert Norman, became an inseparable trio. Borrel and Norman became lovers. They were a pair in contrast. He was handsome, "upper-caste", and rich. She was "shrewd and common". Whilst working in Prosper she took part in a wide range of activities including the creation of circuits in Paris and northern France, sabotage, weapons training, and supervising weapons drops. Suttill was impressed with Borrel's performance. In a note to SOE in March 1943, Suttill wrote:
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course, there was the danger too. Back in England they told us the reception committee had a man missing so they couldn't place the lights for the signal the way they were supposed to. We went back again the next night. We sat on the floor of the airplane , much too tense for conversation, which in any case was not possible because of the noise. I don't remember how long it was until the dispatcher opened the hole, which meant we were arriving. We crept nearer, getting our legs into position. We had drawn straws and luck gave Andrée the first jump. I went immediately after her. You had to jump very quickly, one right after the other, because the plane is going on and you might be dropped very far from each other.
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More than one witness talked of a struggle when the fourth woman was shoved into the furnace. According to a Polish prisoner named Walter Schultz, the SS medical orderly Emil Brüttel told him the following: "When the last woman was halfway in the oven (she had been put in feet first), she had come to
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men led the four women through the center of the camp down to the cellblock at the bottom of the camp. They were held there until later that night. "One could see from their appearance that they hadn't come from a camp," said a French prisoner. "They seemed young, they were fairly well groomed, their
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This officer was parachuted into France in November 1942 as an assistant to an organiser in the Paris area. She proved herself an able and devoted lieutenant, and was appointed second in command of the organisation. Owing to her cool judgment she was always chosen for the most delicate and dangerous
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The prisoner Guérisse referred to was Franz Berg, who assisted in the crematorium and had stoked the fire that night before being sent back to the room he shared with two other prisoners before the executions. The door was locked from the outside during the executions, but it was possible to see the
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The four women were initially together but later put into individual cells. Through the windows, which faced those of the infirmary, they managed to communicate with several prisoners, including a Belgian prisoner, Dr Georges Boogaerts, who passed one of the women (whom he later identified as Borrel
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Between five and six in the morning on 6 July 1944, not quite two months after their arrival in Karlsruhe prison, Borrel, Leigh, Olschanezky and Rowden were taken to the reception room, given their personal possessions, and escorted by two Gestapo men 100 kilometres south-west by closed truck to the
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Mlle Borrel's story seems perfectly straightforward. It is corroborated by Dufour who, on arriving in England, vouched for her. She is an excellent type of country girl, who has intelligence and seems a keen patriot. From a security point of view, I can find nothing against Mlle Borrel and recommend
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Her father (Louis) died when she was 11, and to help support her family Borrel left school at 14 to work for a dress designer. When she was 16, her family moved to Paris, where Borrel spent two years as a shop assistant in Boulangerie Pajo, a bakery. After this she worked at the Bazar d'Amsterdam as
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Of sound intelligence, if lacking somewhat in imagination. She has little organising ability and will do her best work under definite instructions. She is thoroughly tough and self-reliant with no nerves. Has plenty of common sense and is well able to look after herself in any circumstances and she
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We were starting on this journey together in fear, but all of us hoping for something above all that we would remain together. We had all had a taste already of what things could be like, none of us did expect for anything very much, we all knew that they could put us to death. I was the only one
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As it happens, we went twice. The pilot wouldn't drop us the first time because the lights of the landing field were not quite accurate, so we had to come all the way back, which was very trying. You were squashed in that little place with a parachute on your back and your legs drawn up, and, of
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of the Free French movement but they have made it a condition that she should give them all the intelligence concerning the organization for which she was working in France. This she refuses to do and apparently they refuse to employ her unless she does. I think that she would make an excellent
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Suttill initially did not wish to have Borrel work with him because "as a married man" he "might find the enforced proximity a strain." However, SOE insisted she was the best person to serve as his courier. She became more than that. Suttill's French was not flawless and Borrel accompanied him
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Everyone who has come into contact with her in her work agrees with myself that she is the best of us all. In J…'s absence, she acted as my Lieutenant. Shared every danger. Took part in a December reception committee with myself and some others. Has a perfect understanding of security and an
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but they were not enthusiastic about French citizens who had worked with the British (who were deeply involved in the escape network Borrel had been working with), and were not interested in Borrel as she refused to divulge information about all her prior activities. Borrel was subsequently
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When had gone, we went to the crematorium oven, opened the door and saw that there were four blackened bodies within. Next morning in the course of my duties I had to clear the ashes out of the crematorium oven. I found a pink woman's stocking garter on the floor near the
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her senses and struggled. As there were sufficient men there, they were able to push her into the oven, but not before she had resisted and scratched Straub's face." The next day Schultz noticed that the face of the camp executioner (Straub) had been severely scratched.
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Not long before World War II broke out, Borrel's socialist sympathies led her to travel to Spain to help the Republican government in its fight against the Nazi-backed fascists in Spain. However, she found that the war had all but been lost, and returned to France.
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and become the first female SOE agents to parachute into German-occupied France early on the morning of 25 September, as part of operation "Whitebeam" to set up resistance networks in Paris and Northern France (circuits and sub-circuits). They were flown in from
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is absolutely reliable. Has lost her attitude of over-confidence and has benefited enormously from the course and developed a thoroughly level headed approach towards problems. A very pleasant personality and she should eventually develop into a first class agent.
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codenamed "Felix" and "Cat", respectively. The film tells the story of the training of agents for SOE and their operations in France. The training sequences were filmed using the SOE equipment at the training schools at Traigh and Garramor (South Morar) and at
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The men she trained with found her "informal by habit, lower-class, and scrappy." She was said to be "accessible, playful, easy to like, easy to share a smoke and a laugh with, but innocent too, neither hardened nor hurt by the rough wear of war."
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games with other SOE agents in a Paris cafe violated SOE's doctrine that for security reasons networks should be independent of each other with as little contact as possible between and among networks and even among members of the same network.
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in early February, though Borrel was sent back 15 days later following a decree that nurses under the age of 21 were not allowed to serve in hospitals. This decree was revoked a few days later and she was sent to the Hôpital de Beaucaire in
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In September 1942, Borrel was the first female agent of SOE to arrive in France by parachute, which also made her the first female secret agent known to have parachuted into enemy territory. Based in Paris, she became a member of the SOE's
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We heard low voices in the next room and then the noise of a body being dragged along the floor, and he whispered to me that he could see people dragging something along the floor which was below his angle of vision through the fanlight.
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Madam Guépin, the wife of George Darling (who ran a resistance group in north-west France), said Borrel "Had a head on her shoulders and a will of iron", and was "utterly loyal and devoted to Prosper , as her chief, and to Archambaud
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concentration camp in France, where they arrived around three-thirty in the afternoon. The women's arrival was apparently unexpected as was the order by one of the women's escorts that the four women were to be executed immediately.
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a shop assistant which allowed her to have Sundays off so she could enjoy her passion for cycling. In October 1939, Borrel's mother (Eugenie) was advised to move to a warmer climate for her health, so took Andrée and her sister to
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to volunteer her services. She enrolled in a crash course in nursing that she completed on 20 January 1940, which qualified her to serve as a nurse in the Association des Dames Françaises. First at Hôpital Compliméntaire in
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Buckmaster was the head of SOE's F Section, who infamously ignored security checks by captured SOE wireless operators that indicated their capture, resulting in agents being captured and executed.
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Inside the building housing the crematorium, each woman in turn was told to undress for a medical check and a doctor gave her an injection for what he told one of them was a vaccination against
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addition to our own Corps Féminin and it should not be difficult to get her… She said that she was perfectly willing to let us have the information she refuses to give to the Free French.
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where she worked as a courier. Prosper was SOE's largest and most important network in France and Borrel was an important figure in its leadership. She was arrested by the
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From the noise of the crematorium oven doors which I heard, I can state definitely that in each case the groaning women were placed immediately in the crematorium oven.
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Tentative of History of In/Exfiltrations into/from France during WWII from 1940 to 1945 (Border Crossings, Parachutes, Planes PU & Sea Landings), rev108-31122023
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F. (Maurice Buckmaster). "Note to M.T. from F. in SOE about comment by Suttill about Borrel that was extracted from a report he submitted to SOE" (24 March 1943) .
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Television series that was broadcast between 1987 and 1990 featuring the exploits of the women and, less frequently, the men of SOE, which was renamed the 'Outfit'.
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On the night of 24 September 1942 (the night after their parachute drop was aborted due to the signals in the drop zone being incorrect), Borrel ("Denise") and
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Post-war report on the efforts to locate Andrée Borrel. She was identified as an S.O.E. secret agent, so the report was labelled "SECRET" (top of page).
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corridor from a small window above the door, so the prisoner in the highest bunk was able to keep up a running commentary on what he saw. Berg said:
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Monique (SOE codename for the Whitebeam operation and subsequent work in France), Denise Urbain (alias while working as an SOE agent in France)
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A once classified report compiled in 1946 by a former member of SOE's F Section, Major Robert Bourne-Patterson, who was a planning officer.
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as a SAS operative in Brittany, later becoming Professor of Modern History at Manchester University and an official historian of the SOE).
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Focus on the four female SOE agents (Borrel, Leigh, Olschanezky and Rowden) executed in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
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officially condemned to death. The others were not. But there is always a fugitive ray of hope that some miracle will take place.
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As women were a rarity in the camp their presence immediately attracted attention from both German guards and prisoners.
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At the same time that this body was being brought past we heard the noise of heavy breathing and low groaning combined.
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a parachute drop of containers with weapons for the resistance. It was the first of many over the next few months.
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Because of Borrel's familiarity with Paris, it was natural that she be sent there to work as a courier for the new "
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near the Spanish border. This became the Pat Line's last safe house (before the hard and dangerous route over the
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from a photograph) cigarettes through the window. Borrel threw him a little tobacco pouch containing some money.
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Following Borrel's arrest by the Gestapo, the SOE produced a citation for an award that stated the following:
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work such as recruiting and arranging rendezvous, and she acted as "cut-out" for her commanding officer.
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A source of information about the dozens of female agents sent into France during WW2 including Borrel.
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Borrel seemed like just the type of woman SOE needed for a field agent. Her SOE interviewer commented:
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Written by the son of Major Francis Suttill, the Prosper network chief executed by the Nazis in 1945.
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in 2010. The cellblock is the building on the left and the crematorium is the building on the right.
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Overview of Atkins' activity at SOE (served as Buckmaster's intelligence officer in the F Section).
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SOE in France 1941-1945: An Official Account of the Special Operations Executive's French Circuits
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Overview of the scores of female SOE agents sent into occupied Europe during WW2 including Borrel.
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Shadows in the Fog: The True Story of Major Suttill and the Prosper French Resistance Network
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Soon after landing in England, like all arrivals from the Continent, Borrel was taken to the
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Documents RAF small aircraft landings in France during WW2 (author was one of the pilots).
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Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-Occupied France
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At the beginning of August 1941, Borrel and Dufour established the Villa Rene-Therese in
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
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When the women arrived in Germany they were put into separate cells in the prison in
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Agents Françaises: French women infiltrated into France during the Second World War
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Documents the activities of female OSS and SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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Documentary about the SOE "finishing school" on the Beaulieu estate in Hampshire.
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clothes were not rubbish, their hair was brushed, and each had a case in their (
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German suppression of Prosper began in April 1943. On 23 and 24 June 1943, the
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approached by the Special Operations Executive and joined it on 15 May 1942.
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Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE
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Documents Atkins' post-war search for missing SOE agents including Borrel.
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On 13 May 1944, Borrel along with three other captured female SOE agents,
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Documents the activities of female SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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in recognition of her defence of France, while Britain awarded her the
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imperturbable calmness. Thank you very much for having sent her to me.
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Borrel undertook training with SOE to become a field agent with their
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Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organization
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We Landed By Moonlight: The Secret RAF landings in France 1940-1944
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of SOE's Agents in Wartime France
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as one of 3,500 "to whom war denied a known and honoured grave".
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French people who died in Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
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The fourth, however, resisted in the corridor. I heard her say "
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in June 1943. She was subsequently executed in July 1944 at the
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Information about female SOE agents in France including Borrel.
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Filming began in 1944 and starred real-life SOE agents Captain
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Special Operations Executive personnel killed in World War II
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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
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FANY (SOE) memorial, Brookwood Military Cemetery, 5 July 2017
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Comprehensive coverage of the German occupation of France.
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A Quiet Courage: The story of SOE's women agents in France
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on the Mediterranean coast where they had family friends.
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When World War II broke out Borrel went to work with the
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The Prosper network grew rapidly, and, in the words of
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department of France. She is also commemorated on the
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Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France)
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Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE
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Since arriving in London, she attempted to join the
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Prospect: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network
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New York: Broadway Books. p. 24. 1090:British military history of World War II 838:Posthumously, France awarded Borrel the 814: 806: 778: 682: 670: 657: 558: 407: 319: 254: 3618:List of Holocaust memorials and museums 2900:Timeline of deportations to death camps 2285:Aubrac, Raymond; Aubrac, Lucie (2014). 1672: 1529: 1504: 1498: 738:, but was in fact a 10 cc dose of 667:Monument to the Departed in background. 521: 484:, and newly-arrived wireless operator, 3674: 3599:Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation 3105:Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline 2433:. New York City: Cooper Square Press. 2223: 2197: 2127: 2101: 1991:"Memorial to female WW2 secret agents" 1901: 1880: 1868: 1853: 1841: 1829: 1795: 1778: 1759: 1747: 1735: 1711: 1684: 1634: 1556: 1492: 1465: 1385: 1368: 1341: 1329: 1302: 1254: 1188: 1161: 1134: 1039:. 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Index


Bécon-les-Bruyères
Natzweiler-Struthof
French Resistance
Special Operations Executive
FANY
Prosper
Second World War
Croix de Guerre
Médaille de la Résistance
KCBC
French Resistance
Special Operations Executive
World War II
Axis powers
Nazi Germany
England
Prosper
occupied France
Gestapo
Natzweiler-Struthof
Bécon-les-Bruyères
Toulon

Red Cross
Nîmes
Beaucaire
Pat Line
Canet-plage
Mediterranean

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