TWO WOMEN VISIT ENGLAND - Two members of the , [aged 22] and Mile. Henriette [aged 19] have just arrived in England. They have come at the invitation of the Air Ministry and the on the personal suggestion of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, to represent not only their own town of VIROFLAY and their own service, but also as a tribute to all those French women who during the years of occupation helped Allied airmen forced down in France and tended the gravesof those who died. As members of the t
TWO WOMEN VISIT ENGLAND - Two members of the , [aged 22] and Mile. Henriette [aged 19] have just arrived in England. They have come at the invitation of the Air Ministry and the on the personal suggestion of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, to represent not only their own town of VIROFLAY and their own service, but also as a tribute to all those French women who during the years of occupation helped Allied airmen forced down in France and tended the gravesof those who died. As members of the these two girls made identity and ration cards and birth certificates, and collected leaflets dropped by the which they distributed and circulated among the townspeople. See : 19th December 1944]. [left] and leaving the aircraft which brought them from France to this country. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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