of civilians who secretly gathered intelligence about the Germans and sabotaged their activities whenever possible Joyeuse obtained information about a German oil refinery and an underground factory that was producing V 1 flying bombs As a result of Joyeuse's information both of these facilities were bombed before D Day making it more difficult for the Germans to provide fuel and weapons t their troops D DAY D Day originally code named Operation Overlord was the largest amphibious military operation in history It was a risky operation carefully planned over many months by the Allied commanders Taking place on June 6 1944 it involved hundreds of thousands of Allied troops invading Normandy France either by landing on the beaches or by parachuting in from the air D Day resulted in the loss of thousands of Allied and German troops but it turned the tide of the war and helped the Allies defeat the Axis powers SURROUNDED However as Joyeuse was transmitting t locations of these German facilities to the Allies via radio he was cut off A powerful flashlight beam swept suddenly through the room The Gestapo the German secret police had found Joyeuse and surrounded he farmhouse Joyeuse told the Resistance fighters with him they all needed to get out quickly He had just picked up his gun from the table when four German hand grenades came through the window The blast threw him to the ground Joyeuse described his experience We dashed into the alley and reached a small service staircase in the back of the house We succeeded in leaving the house at the moment that the Germans entered through the garden
LI Members of the French Resistance wave as Allied troops enter the village of Cuillebeuf France in 1944 Joyeuse ran for a wall that separated the farm from a neighboring park but he was unable to climb it He told the Resistance fighters to escape on their own and he never saw them again Joyeuse continued fleeing as the Germans guided by the light of flaming torches shot at him with machine guns and rifles He
They still missed me I crossed all the tracks and came to another gate leading to the street I climbed over At this moment two other Germans with machine guns woke up to what was going on and fired Luckily in climbing over the gate I had fallen flat on my face behind a small cement parapet which caused all the bullets to ricochet Joyeuse was shot in the foot hand and kneecap and he suffered several cuts and bruises He finally crouched in a doorway one hand on his Colt revolver and the other clutching the suicide pill given to spies in case they needed to kill THE FRENCH RESISTANCE In the spring of 1940 the Germans invaded ruthless in their treatment of Resistance France and occupied it Charles de Gaulle members torturing or killing them when the leader of Free France urged the French they were discovered By 1941 the British people to continue fighting against Nazi Special Operations Executive SOE branch Germany As a result of the invasion and de of intelligence began to build relationships Gaulle's words French citizens who were with the French Resistance groups In 1943 against the Germans formed several groups the United States also began supporting and that together were known as the French working with the Resistance Eventually all of Resistance These groups differed in roles the different groups were merged into one and in how violent they were Some were During the course of the war the Resistance nonviolent and published underground committed many acts of sabotage It also newspapers or anti Nazi writing Others collected and passed along intelligence including the group known as the Maquis Its members played an especially vital role intended to hurt or kill the German forces during the preparations for D Day occupying their country The Germans were 10
SA CELPH S After meeting up with American soldiers members of the French Resistance sit down for a simple
