SPY GEAR
Tools and arms were supplied to agents
or French Resistance fighters known as
the maquis (center) pictured near Paris
in August 1944. These devices included
a garrote (top right), used to choke
opponents; time fuses (above); and a
radio set concealed in a suitcase (right),
used to report on German forces in
Normandy before D-Day.
PATHS OF LIBERATION
An OSS chart (above) lists the agency’s
contributions to the liberation of
France, including operations launched
before and after the invasion of
Normandy and the Allied landings in
southern France in August 1944.
KENNETH W. RENDELL, INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR IIKENNETH W. RENDELL, INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
KENNETH W. RENDELL, INTERNATIONAL
MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR IIORONOZ/ALBUM