The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

"Ici Londres": Franck Bauer Underground Radio Announcer Dies-- Part 2


The broadcast that French citizens secretly listened to with wireless radios gave news of the free world, countered Nazi propaganda and transmitted coded instructions to resistance fighters.

"Ici Londres"  --  "This is London" -- became a code word after Charles De Gaulle's appeal for armed resistance in June 1940.

--GreGen

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