6 accounts found for “France”
23rd Headquarters Special Troops (Ghost Army)
The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops — known as the Ghost Army — was a unit of artists, actors, set designers, and sound engineers who used inflatable tanks, fa...
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
At 56 years old, arthritic, and walking with a wooden cane, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — son of the 26th President — was the only general officer ...
442nd Regimental Combat Team; Senator Daniel Inouye (Company E)
While their families were confined in American internment camps under Executive Order 9066, Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team becam...
Jozef Gabčík & Jan Kubiš, SOE-trained Czech paratroopers
Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, architected the Holocaust, and was considered the most dangerous man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In May 1...
Virginia Hall, SOE "Marie" / OSS Operative
A Baltimore-born woman with a prosthetic leg she named "Cuthbert" organized the most effective SOE resistance networks in occupied France, evading the Gestapo f...
Pastor André Trocmé & Magda Trocmé, village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
The tiny Huguenot village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Auvergne region sheltered an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Jewish and other refugees during the German occu...