Something in the archives about the 1944 Worry Bird crash doesn't match the official record.
It'll take careful writing to do it justice.
That's what the book is for. 🚴‍♂️
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Three archives. One chain of evidence. And a memorial in Bedfordshire where the wreaths were still fresh.
By the full moon we flew.
Full post on the site. #Ecrivelo #SOE #RAF

A field near Mâcon. Codenamed AIGLE. On 7/8 Aug 1944, two Americans who survived a B-17 crash in the Rhône walked across it and boarded a Hudson home.
The note describing it ended: note de Londres.
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Lackey 3A – The Écrivélo Files How the SOE drop site LACKEY 3A near Lyon was created by Capt J.E. Lesage and Lt Alcide Beauregard “Cyrano,” the Canadian agent later executed at Montluc Prison in 1944.

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A series of stories and biographical sketches exploring the lives of those who stand at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.

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Une semaine qui a vu la Ville de Lyon l'inauguration du Mémorial de la Shoah, et à la commémoration des 80 ans de la libération du camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau, à place Carnot, dans le 2e arrondissement.

« Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. »

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Memorial to The Worry Bird - an American carpetbagger delivering equipment to the Free French Forces April 1944 - 5 crew killed, 1 severely injured and taken POW and 2 evaded and made it back to the UK. For the FULL story #ecrivelothebook #ecrivelo #lifebehindbars

Oh - that’s interesting… find out why the #ecrivelo the book is published. #lifebehindbars #correctingthefables

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.#lifebehindbars #ecrivelo

At around 9:30 29 December 1943 the Germans arrived here in the hamlet of La Chapelle - Jean Marie Sonnery, mayor of Chamelet was arrested. #lifebehindbars #ecrivelo

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