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The special forces of the Liberation: exceptional outdoor exhibition

Exhibition

Le 14 juillet à 09:00

On July 14, 15 and 16, to mark Bastille Day, the Airborne Museum will be staging an ephemeral exhibition in its grounds, in the area between the WACO building and the Reagan building. Entitled “Les forces spéciales de la Libération” (Special Forces of the Liberation), it will showcase the shadowy agents who worked in small numbers before, during and after the Normandy landings, to help ensure the success of the operation in the medium and long term, as well as its aftermath.

Operations Jedburgh, Sussex and Proust, as well as the OSS Operational Groups, will be described in detail in an installation combining exhibits and explanatory panels, with the help of uniformed specialists who will be happy to answer your questions in English and French.

Access to this exhibition is included in the price of admission to the museum. It is not possible to enter without paying a museum admission ticket. The exhibition will run continuously during the museum’s opening hours, i.e. 9am-7pm, with a break at lunchtime.

Small glimpses of the soldiers in the operations in question:

Commandos Jedburgh

Jedburghs receiving instructions. The British and American soldiers are seated, while the French soldier (standing right) and the British officer (standing left) give instructions. Credit: US OSS
Jedburghs before a training jump. Credit: US OSS
Replenishing a Jedburgh team. Credit: Archives CIA
Members of Team RONALD prepare to jump into occupied France on August 4, 1944. LT Shirley R. Trumps (foreground) and T/SGT Elmer B. Esch (behind Trumps) were American, while Lieutenant Georges Deseilligny, facing the camera, was French. Credit: Soc.Mil
A Jedburgh with his equipment, 1944. Credit: DR/D-Day Overlord

OSS Operational Groups

Chinese paratroopers in training and their OG instructors before their first mass tactical jump, China 1945. Credit: Soc.Mil
Members of Greek OG Group IV coordinate with Bulgarian soldiers in Macedonia, October 1944. Credit: Soc.Mil
OG Team LAFAYETTE in August 1944. Many of these men then took part in the SEWANEE mission in northern Italy, from March to May 1945.. Credit: Soc.Mil


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