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"PATHFINDER"
MISSION
On the 8th of February 1944, whereas the future teams
began their training, the very first missions called "Pathfinder"
were composed of four officers parachuted in occupied France. Their
real names were: Jeannette Guyot, Marcel Saubestre, George Lasalle
and Pierre Binet.
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Mrs
Jeannette Guyot
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Marcel
Saubestre
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Georges
Lassale
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Pierre
Binet
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Their objectives were: to locate the future
dropping zones and the landing fields for the following missions, to
establish contacts and to arrange concealed places for the storage
of material, etc. Their methodical and keen work was without
question a brilliant success, since in the next following six months,
they found and organized twenty-two fields of parachuting which were
used - certain twice. They also discovered nearly one hundred "shelters"
to hide the dropped "Sussex" agents.
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Mrs
Andrée
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Arrived to Paris with George Lassale, the
radio operator of the team, Jeannette decided to go at her cousin
Mrs Kiehl’s place "Café de l’Electricité", Faubourg Montmartre,
where they were welcome. After few days, Jeannette was lodged at her
acquaintance’s place of whom the husband was a prisoner, Mrs Andrée
Goubillon. This latter held a café located 8 rue Tournefort in
Paris. After the liberation of Paris, her café was baptized "Café
des Sussex" Mrs Goubillon interviewed little time before her death,
occurred in October 1988, declared in connection with Jeannette’s
mission:
"I knew which kind of work she had come to make, and
when she asked me the question: if I were ready to help her, I
answered yes without the least hesitation. Although the café was
located beside an office of Gestapo, I knew what I wanted to do, I
was not afraid "(1) |
Arrived to Paris with George Lassale, the
radio operator of the team, Jeannette decided to go at her cousin
Mrs Kiehl’s place "Café de l’Electricité", Faubourg Montmartre,
where they were welcome. After few days, Jeannette was lodged at her
acquaintance’s place of whom the husband was a prisoner, Mrs Andrée
Goubillon. This latter held a café located 8 rue Tournefort in
Paris. After the liberation of Paris, her café was baptized "Café
Sussex" Mrs Goubillon interviewed little time before her death,
occurred in October 1988, declared in connection with Jeannette’s
mission:
"I knew which kind of work she had come to make, and
when she asked me the question: if I were ready to help her, I
answered yes without the least hesitation. Although the café was
located beside an office of Gestapo, I knew what I wanted to do, I
was not afraid "(1)
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The coffe
Electricity
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The coffee Ms Andrée,
named after the
Liberation
"Café des Sussex"
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Sussex Coffee
repainted
and renamed after the
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by the English
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Commemorative tablet to be seen rue
Tournefort, The former “Café of Sussex
Network”
called now “Le Resto”
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Thus started the dangerous and difficult work which consisted to
lodge and hide certain Sussex teams. Mrs Goubillon recalled that to
present himself, the agents who entered the first time its café were
to say: "Hello my aunt, how is my uncle? "They showed at the same
time the photograph of a baby, known under the name of Mic-Mic,
known as the last colonel Rémy’s son.
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