18 Facts About Jeanne Bohec

Jeanne Bohec trained teams of saboteurs, organized and took part in several sabotage operations and participated in the liberation of France.

Jeanne Bohec wrote a book describing her involvement in the Resistance: La Plastiqueuse a bicyclette.

Jeanne Bohec was born in 1919 in Tourlaville in Normandy.

Jeanne Bohec passed her baccalaureate in Angers just as World War II started.

The lab Jeanne Bohec was working for was moved to a tunnel in order to escape the bombings.

Jeanne Bohec returned to her home and decided to flee to Great Britain.

Jeanne Bohec hurried to the port of Brest, where she discovered the Abeille 4, a tugboat, preparing to leave for England.

Jeanne Bohec joined the Women's Volunteer Corps of the Free French Forces in January 1941.

Jeanne Bohec worked first as a secretary to the technical and armament office at Carlton Gardens.

Jeanne Bohec was one of a total of five women parachuted into France.

Jeanne Bohec was received there by Jean-Francois Clouet des Pesruches, head of the Air Operations Office for the western region.

Jeanne Bohec had been informed of her arrival by a broadcast message from Radio London; "The coiling boa will bring you a little one".

Jeanne Bohec's mission was clear: she was to provide training in the handling of explosives to the resistance fighters who were to enter into action after the launch of so-called 'Green Plan'.

For several weeks, Jeanne Bohec criss-crossed the French countryside on a bicycle arousing little suspicion among the Occupation forces.

Since she knew how to handle weapons, Jeanne Bohec asked to take part in subsequent fighting for the liberation of France, but she was not allowed to bear arms.

Jeanne Bohec regretted not being to fight during the final phases of the liberation of France.

Jeanne Bohec finished her studies and worked until 1980 as a mathematics teacher at the Roland Dorgeles college in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

Jeanne Bohec died on 11 January 2010, and is buried in Plestin-les-Greves.