Mont Mouchet, South-Central France • June 20, 1944 During the Allied invasion of France (Operation Overlord), the Maquis and other French resistance groups played a vital role in delaying the arrival of German reinforcements to the Normandy beachhead as well as in the eventual Allied victory in France. The FFI, or Fifis (Forces Françaises de…
RAF Scampton Airfield, Lincolnshire, England • June 20/21, 1943 On this date in 1943 a Royal Air Force bomber task force of Avro Lancasters took off from Scampton and several other Lincolnshire airfields on a mission to bomb a German radar-antenna factory at Friedrichshafen on the northern shore of Lake Constance (German, Bodensee) in the…
Mont Mouchet, South Central France · June 20, 1944 During the Allied invasion of France (Operation Overlord), the Maquis and other French resistance groups played a role in delaying the arrival of German reinforcements to the Normandy beachhead as well as in the eventual Allied victory in France. The FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Interieur for…