This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
We know: 2024 will be a year of military commemorations. To open the celebrations of the 80 anniversary of the liberation of France (landings of Normandy and Provence, liberation of Paris, Strasbourg, etc.), the political and military authorities were spoiled for choice. Because there was no shortage of heroes – the real ones – that year in France. In the end, one name was retained: that of Tom Morel, one of the rare active officers who chose not only to continue the fight after the armistice of 1940, but to join the Internal Resistance rather than the Free France, unlike most of its counterparts from colonial troops or the Army of Africa.
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Whoever says Tom Morel - his pseudonym in the Secret Army - immediately thinks of the Glières plateau, one of the hotspots of the Resistance along with the Vercors massif. Due to its dimensions and the difficulty of accessing it, this plateau was indeed going to become a place of parachuting...
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