Katje in France

[Tom Stanton]

Cool story.

At 12/29/98 12:56 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:
>From the front page of yesterday's Washington Post
>
>"The chance meeting on the night train would lead Jeannie (pronounced 
>Johnny) Rousseau to join Lamarque's operation and become one of the most 
>effective -- if unheralded -- spies of World War II. Her precise reports on 
>the 
>German's secret military plans, particularly the development of the V-1
flying 
>bombs and V-2 rockets, helped persuade Prime Minister Winston Churchill 
>to bomb the test site at Peenemunde and blunted the impact of a terror 
>weapon the Nazis had hoped would change the course of the war. Her 
>exploits later landed her in three concentration camps, which she survived 
>without ever disclosing the great secret she had stolen from the Germans."
>
>http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-12/28/102l-122898-
>idx.html
>
>AsB4,
>
>Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
>Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
>DON'T PANIC! -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>What, me worry? -- A. E. Newman
>Get Over It -- GPMO

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