The Réseau AGIR was a World War II espionage group founded by French wartime resister Michel Hollard that provided decisive human intelligence on V-1 flying bomb facilities in the North of France. Thanks to Hollard's reports and information from his agents of the Réseau AGIR, the V1 launch sites located across North-Eastern Normandy to the Strait of Dover, were systematically bombed during Operation Crossbow.
Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial of a flying-bomb launch site under construction at Bois Carre, near Yvrench, discovered and documented by the agents of the Réseau AGIR.
Plaque commemorating the 20 people who were killed in action for the Réseau AGIR during World War II. It is located in Paris, at the rue de Bercy 207, where was situated the former Hotel d'Annecy where the command post of the Réseau AGIR.
AGIR provided HUMINT on V-1 flying bomb "ski sites", e.g., some had launch ramps ("P", bottom), here Maisoncelle.
Robert Desnos was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement.
Robert Desnos in 1924