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A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny, French President Emmanuel Macron kissed her on both cheeks and pinned the nation’s highest honor to her lapel.

Lamb spent the months before D-Day alone in a tiny room in central London drawing the detailed maps that guided landing craft to the beaches of Normandy as Allied forces began their invasion of occupied France on June 6, 1944.

While the history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died on the beaches, hundreds of thousands of military women worked behind the scenes in crucial non-combat roles such as codebreakers, ship plotters, radar operators and cartographers.

The contributions of women like Lamb, radio operator Marie Scott and Pat Owtram, whose work helped crack previously unbreakable Nazi codes, have come into sharper focus as the number of living D-Day veterans dwindles.

The maps “showed railways, roads, churches, castles, every possible feature that could be visible to an incoming invader and from every angle,” Lamb told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

Lamb was part of a team of Wrens who used information from radar stations and coast guards to plot ship movements through the English Channel on a large flat table.

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[–] machineLearner 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

christian lamb is such a good christian name

[–] HollandJim 1 points 5 months ago

It’s also a good lamb name too

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the 60th anniversary of D-Day, I was in college in DC and we were invited to go to the French embassy’s event to show that appreciation for WWII veterans was multi-generational. They were all being flown to France for a free trip to be thanked.

I was in line at the buffet and I’m from Louisiana and was a sous chef. A veteran was asking what certain food items were so I was like, “Oh, beef bourguignon? That’s basically beef stew. It’s delicious.” And he was like, “Louisiana? LA. I’m also from LA: Lower Alabama!” and we ended up cutting up and hanging out. He had the best stories.

It’s one of my favorite memories. Appreciation for D-Day vets is definitely multigenerational and that France does appreciation events for them is really a great thing.

[–] CptEnder 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah saw the event today. Was really powerful. The Watch reading tradition by a young Navy LT hit hard as well as our two Presidents standing together. Than god France was saved, what a beautiful country.