The Lady Is a Spy by Don Mitchell

Author:Don Mitchell [Mitchell, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Resistance members study weapon mechanisms dropped by parachute in the Haute-Loire.

Virginia didn’t take part in sabotage operations. But because of her leadership, the Resistance was able to undertake a number of successful sabotage activities between July 27 and August 12, 1944, which she dutifully cataloged in her activity report when she later returned to London:

Bridge blown at Montagnac, cutting road Langogne-Le Puy.

Four cuts made on railroad Langogne-Brassac.

Freight train derailed in tunnel at Monistrol-d’Allier and fifteen meters of track blown up behind wrecking train and crew after it had gone into tunnel to clear up the wreckage.

Tunnel at Selignac rendered impassable by blowing up rails.

Lavoute-sur-Loire [sic]—railway bridge blown.

Railway bridge wrecked at Chamalieres and locomotives driven into gulf below.

Telephone lines Brioude-Le Puy rendered useless—lines cut and wires rolled up and telephone posts cut down.

Between Le Puy and Langeac one auto mitrailleuse [armored car] and one lorry [truck] of German soldiers destroyed by bazooka.

Nineteen miliciens—members of the political paramilitary organization created by the Vichy regime to fight against the Resistance—arrested and valuable documents seized.

German convoy of twelve lorries attacked near St. Paulieu last part of July—FFI [Resistance forces known as the Forces Francaises de l’interieur, or French Forces of the Interior] lost twenty killed.

Five German lorries destroyed around August 12, 1944 near Retournac.

A convoy from Le Puy was trapped between Chamelix and Pigeyre by bridges blown after five days’ struggle to advance. The convoy, which had lost 10 per cent of its effective, surrendered to the FFI of the Loire and Haute Loire at Estiureilles in the Loire. Approximately 500 were taken prisoner—150 killed—FFI losses negligible.

Le Puy was occupied on August 19, 1944 with 30 Germans killed, 6 wounded—FFI, 5 killed, 4 wounded.

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