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In WW2, a strong French woman, Nicole, vows revenge against the Germans and joins the French Resistance to blow up bridges, trains and German installations. She falls in love with an American agent, code named Falcon, who parachuted into France just before D Day. The group takes two German soldiers prisoner during a raid. She is disturbed by their decision to execute the prisoners and tries to save the one she has learned is an anti-Nazi. Nicole is attacked by a former classmate who is later recruited into the French Milice, the French equivalent of the German Gestapo. She is sometimes vicious in defending herself against this cruel predator. Her mother and brothers expected her to marry a farmer and continue tradition of farming. But she wanted a different career. Before the German occupation, she planned to attend the Sorbone in Paris to take advantage of her talent as a writer. When the Germans began rounding up Jews in France, her family hid a local Jewish boy her age while his family was sent away to a concentration camp. He participatd in their attacks on the Germans.
The definitive history on the early history of Bergeytown, New Hope, and Hespeler, Ontario by Winfield Brewster. Featuring the following booklets: J. Hespeler, New Hope C.W. - 1951 The Floodgate: Random Writings of Our Ain Folk - 1952 Hespeler Yarns - 1953 La Rue de Commerce; Queen St. Hespeler, Ontario, - 1954 plus The Short History of Hespeler Public School and rare Maps and Photos Compiled by Paul Langan
Selman Field was activated on June 15, 1942 and "trained over 15,000 navigators that flew in every theater of operation in WWII."--Page 7.
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Friedrich Christian Ortmann was born about 1803 in Mecklenburg, Germany. He married Anna Eleanora Zafft in about 1830. They had seven known children. They immigrated to America in the 1830s and settled in South Dakota. Friedrich Christian died in 1856. Anna died in 1860. Descendants and relatives lived in South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Florida and elsewhere.