As many know the French is strong in my family,
So a French story tonight of the Forgotten Woman Who Helped Make D-Day Possible!!
When people think of D-Day, the images that come to mind are of soldiers running through the sea onto the sand at Omaha Beach, trying desperately to avoid the bullets raining down upon them.
Most people donât think of a thirty-four-year-old French woman.
Yet without this thirty-four-year-old French woman named Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the outcome of D-Day might have been very different. In fact, the outcome of the entire war might have been very different. So who was this woman we should be thankingâalong with all the heroic soldiersâon every D-Da anniversary?
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was supposed to be a concert pianist. Instead, WWII happened, and she became the only female leader of a French Resistance network.
She led Alliance, the largest Resistance network in the country, which numbered three thousand agents at its peak and was widely regarded by the Allies as one of the most effective.
One of the most significant achievements for Marie and her agents was the map that helped the Allies plan the D-Day invasion of France. This map was fifty-feet long and it spilled out of a suitcase at Marieâs feet when she was meeting with MI6 in London. It had been hand-drawn by her agents and showed every German gun emplacement on the Normandy beaches, every observation tower, minefield, coastal battery, and barbed-wire fortification.
I would love to tell all her amazing stories including her hiding in a mail bag get the to information to London
but can I instead recommend a book, a must read!!!
Thank you Marie
What a story. Worth a deep Google. Better than any action movie I've seen.
