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Messages in Handlebars - The Youngest Resistance Fighter (Paperback)
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Messages in Handlebars - The Youngest Resistance Fighter (Paperback)
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During World War II, the French Resistance played a vital role in
the Allied victory. Supported by Brittain's Special Operations
Executive in London, Resistance networks were formed, led and
equipped by SOE agents. The Auduc family provided essential support
to the network formed around Le Mans, France, by an American OSS
agent and a French SOE agent. The Auduc's oldest son, Jean-Jacques,
became the youngest Resistance fighter to be awarded the Croix de
Guerre. He was also awarded the U. S. Medal of Freedom and the
French Legion of Honor for heroism as a 12 year old. Other members
of this heroic family were similarly distinguished. The downing of
two B-17's on July 4, 1943, brought the Auduc's face to face with
the five surviving U. S. airmen and changed each other's lives
forever as the airmen were first sheltered and then repatriated to
England. The graves of those airmen who perished were resolutely
guarded by French citizens. The Auduc family and their fellow
resistants teach us how much people will sacrifice to gain freedom
from an oppressor. American, British, Canadian and French worked in
cloaked secrecy and harmony to rid the world of the greatest evil
in recorded history. U. S. airman Sgt. David Butcher stayed with
the Resistance for eight months, training its members in the use of
the weapons parachuted to them. Other downed airmen were assisted
by underground networks to escape to Spain and eventual
repatriation to England. American Army Captain and OSS member Fred
Floege twice parachuted into France on missions for the SOE. During
his second mission, he organized and led a large group of
resistants in the east of France who stymied German movements
before and during the D-Day landings. This is a true, previously
untold story of undaunted resistance to the Nazis. Alfred Auduc
awes with his reckless determination to thwart the Nazis even while
imprisoned in concentration camps along with his brother and other
resistants from his region. His mother at age 66 harbors a radio
transmitter and its operator while receiving munitions drops on her
farm. The end of the War is not the end of the Auduc's story.
Through them we learn how the Marshall plan helped to restart
European's lives. But we also learn how the deep scars of their
incarceration pain them throughout their lives. For many years,
Jean-Jacques Auduc has belonged to a French association whose
mission is to remember Allied sacrifices to liberate their country.
Jean-Jacques relates his story to French school children; he
proudly carries the American flag at commemorative events; and, he
restores and maintains Allied monuments. Jean-Jacques chooses to
use his meager funds in this way rather than on a TV set or a
computer or the internet or other comforts. Perhaps the proceeds
from this book may allow him some comforts in his eighties. My
wife, Claire, who translated the several bios which are included in
this book, Jean-Jacques, who so much wished to have his family's
and friends' stories preserved, and I thank you for your interest.
Kendrick Kirk This book has been endorsed by Sir Peter F. Ricketts,
the British Ambassador to France.
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