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Helene Deschamps Adams

Photo courtesy of Life In Legacy

[zot]

A genuine heroine. Thanks for posting this.

[osideplanner]

nice catch, thanx

[Clemenza]

An odd coalition of gangsters, Stalinists, and farmers upset at the Germans taking their crops.

Dire situations always lead to the oddest coalitions.

[dighton]

It’s humbling to contemplate that kind of courage.

Rest in peace.

[Semper911]

From the article:

Always in danger of being exposed, the diminutive auburn-haired Deschamps, just over 5 feet tall, suffered a permanent back injury when beaten by a French interrogator. Another time, faced with the choice of being blown up or having her cover blown, she walked into a building where she knew a bomb had been planted. She barely escaped, bleeding and partially deafened, when it exploded.

And then there's this gem...

In 1953, living in Los Angeles, she made local headlines when a man responding to her ad to sell her sports car turned out to be one of the downed fliers she had rescued a decade earlier. Days later, he attended her swearing-in as an American citizen.

A true hero. My tagline sure doesn't apply to her.

[tet68]

Whoa, a total babe too.

Rest in Peace, brave one.

[jla]

Helene Deschamps Adams, a hero of the French Resistance who saved American fliers from capture and Jews from execution by the Nazis, and played a role in secret preparations for Allied invasions of France

This cannot be true. According to a countless number of keen and scholarly Freepers any French person that has ever lived is a feckless coward.

[fieldmarshaldj]

May she rest in peace.

[txroadkill]

Aux armes, citoyens !
Formez vos bataillons !
Marchons ! Marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons !

[Brilliant]

Hero of the French resistance? You know... "Adams" is not a French name.