French resistance

Robert Doisneau, Paris WWII.

On Tuesday, the French and British ambassadors plan to honor Virginia Hall, a Baltimore native working in France for British intelligence in World War II.

French Resistance had a rather broader profile in relatively remote, rural areas, particularly where hills, mountains and wilderness might be involved. While positive Resistance activity in cities might have consisted of the usual Gaulllist, Communist, Jewish and so on categories, out in the hills this profile broadened to include really large bodies of "Maquisards" whose main (often only) contribution to the struggle was to hide in the hills so as to avoid transportation to Germany as…

Today, we know little about the women who played a surprisingly large role in the French Resistance. Author Caroline Moorehead tells their story.

Role of women in organized opposition to the German occupiers of France and the Vichy Regime during World War II. The French Resistance, in ...

The Maquis - Guerrilla Warfare. The French Resistance played a vital part in aiding the Allies to success in Western Europe - especially leading up to D-Day in June 1944. The French Resistance supplied the Allies with vital intelligence reports as well as doing a huge amount of work to disrupt the German supply and communication lines within France. No glorification, no heroism, just history. © All rights reserved. This Image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished…

Another hero of the French Resistance during World War II and decorated for saving the lives of U.S. soldiers shot down behind enemy lines was Micheline Blum-Picard. Only eighteen-years-old when she first became involved in the Resistance, Blum-Picard started by carrying messages taped to her back and then progressed to photographing inside factories damaged by bombing raids By D-Day, however, she was carrying a rifle, a pistol, and a hand grenade wherever she went.

A tour of some of the most well-known and widely-used Allied guns of the Second World War

A female member of the French resistance with German tunic and Thompson machine gun.

Role of women in organized opposition to the German occupiers of France and the Vichy Regime during World War II. The French Resistance, in ...