Gabriel Plançon
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Gabriel Plançon was a French Resistance fighter born in Besançon on July 10, 1916, and shot dead by German occupying forces in the same town on September 14, 1943. Nicknamed Bibi, he led a "classic" e
A Halifax bomber.
Commemorative plaque on the house where Gabriel Plançon was murdered.
Tomb of Gabriel Plançon and his wife Marguerite.
Rue Gabriel Plançon (Gabriel Plançon street).
French Resistance
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The French Resistance was a collection of different groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small grou
Members of the Maquis near Boulogne-sur-Mer in September 1944
The cemetery and memorial in Vassieux-en-Vercors where, in July 1944, German Wehrmacht forces executed more than 200 people, in reprisal for the Maquis's armed resistance. The town was later awarded the Ordre de la Libération.
Identity document of French Resistance fighter Lucien Pélissou
The ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Limousin region of the Massif Central