Battle of Mount Gargan

On the 14th of July 1944, 36 B-17 Flying Fortress dropped a large number of weapons intended for the French Resistance near the village of Sussac. Germans reacted quickly by sending troops to prevent the Resistance to get back and …

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On the 14th of July 1944, 36 B-17 Flying Fortress dropped a large number of weapons intended for the French Resistance near the village of Sussac. Germans reacted quickly by sending troops to prevent the Resistance to get back and to distribute the weapons. Georges Guinguoin, famous leader of the French Resistance in the area and called "1st French Maquis", deployed his troops around of Mount Gargan to block the German advance. The battle lasted from 17th to 24th of July. German troops, composed by elements of the Jesser Brigade, French Milice and some garrison units, attacked Mount Gargan on the 18th of July from the village of Surdoux. The French Resistance faced to forces superior in numbers and equipped with heavy weapons so they yielded ground to the enemy gradually and abandoned the chapel of Mount Gargan which was destroyed. But the German troops suffered losses three times more important than the French Resistance.

Mount Gargan, 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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