East by Northwest

Hours before OVERLORD, coded transmissions alerted Resistance cells across France, the Forces Francaises de l'lntérieur (FFl), to assemble and hinder the expected movement of German forces toward Normandy. ln Brittany, airdropped French commandos joined a major Ffibivouac near Saint-Marcel and …

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Hours before OVERLORD, coded transmissions alerted Resistance cells across France, the Forces Francaises de l'lntérieur (FFl), to assemble and hinder the expected movement of German forces toward Normandy. ln Brittany, airdropped French commandos joined a major Ffibivouac near Saint-Marcel and began sabotaging rail lines to block Axis reinforcement eastward. British airdrops supplying the Fficamp eventually attracted German attention, and on 18 June local garrison forces massed to flush the partisans out. French SAS Lt. Nicholas Marienne, commanding a sector of the perimeter, found himself in the path of Axis Osttruppen advancing on a chateau they had mistaken for the bivouac's headquarters.

Chateau Sainte-Genevieve, Brittany, France

The French Resistance was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women, who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The men and women of the Resistance came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics, Jews, liberals, anarchists and communists.

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