My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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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