Aviateur américain caché par la résistance française : 1944. - 2 photos - Photo n° 74851
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74851
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U.S. Pilot hidden in woodpile by French underground. These pictures, taken in August, 1944, show how U.S. Lieutenant Charles Moore, pilot of a P-51 fighter plane downed "D-Day", "June 6, 1944, was hidden from the Germans by the French underground for three-an-a-half months until the arca was liberated by advancing American forces. Moore, 25-year-old native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, was forced to bail out over Marcei, France, when his fighter was hit by flak. He walked to the home of the Bourguignon family, members of the French underground. They hurried him into a room, camouflaged by a woodpile, which she shared with one of the Bourguigon boys, Alfred, 22, who was in hiding to escape being send to Germany as a slave laborer. In the daytime, when Germans came to the farmhouse for butter and eggs, the two men took to the woods. The woodpile room and farm buildings contained stolen German rifles and weapons which were taken out and used to advantage at night against the Germans by French underground members. While in hiding, Moore repaired two radios dropped by the British for the underground. These photos were stopped by the censors until the end of the war. PNA OWIL 69808 This photo shows: Lieutenant Moore emerges from the panel entrance of the woodpile secret room while Alfred Bourguignon holds the "door". The entrance was in the back of the Bourguignon garden. OWI Staff Photo by Weston Haynes. Serviced by London OWI (Inner full). Certified as passed by Shaef Censor. [Fonds J. Devos]
