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255:, Gaspard and his comrades ("Laurent", Robert "Prince" Huguet, Max "Bénevol" Menut, Camille "Buron" Leclanché), narrowly evaded a search party led by Hugo Geissler, comprising 2,000 soldiers from the 66th Army Reserve Corps. In the following days, Resistance munitions and supplies were seized.
275:, of whom Gaspard had a vague awareness. Southgate organised a mission, Operation Benjoin, which involved parachuting in light and medium arms including machine-guns, anti-tank rocket launchers and light artillery. Despite Southgate's arrest in May, the
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agent known as Major
Philippe, head of the Hector-Stationer Resistance network. They discussed creating a Resistance hideout in Auvergne. This was based on an idea of the official French army and General Georges Revers, of the
357:, under the command of Kurt Jesser. The resistants fought hard and managed to escape the hideout, and the same happened at La Truyère. After that, they carried out an intensive campaign of ambush and sabotage. The activity of
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in Puy-de-Dôme. In April 1943, he went into hiding and created the
Auvergne 1st Corps Franc, whose command post was situated in the hamlet of Lespinasse, in the commune of
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Coulaudon died of a heart attack during a prize-giving ceremony organised by former
Resistance members at Clermont-Ferrand on 1 June 1977. He is buried at
426:, giving his reasons for joining the Resistance and recounting some of his wartime activities. The same year, he was instrumental in the creation of the
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After repelling an initial attack on 2 June, on 10 June, the 2,700 maquisards at Mont
Mouchet were attacked by elements of two German columns from
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445:, opened a Museum of the Resistance adjacent to the site of his wartime headquarters at Mont Mouchet. He is memorialised there with a plaque.
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365:, including those in the Auvergne led by Coulaudon, led to the pinning-down of 2,000 German soldiers in the region, who surrendered at
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134:(29 December 1907 - 1 June 1977), known as
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712:"Musée de la Résistance du Mont Mouchet"
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243:in Puy-de-Dôme on 11 December 1943, the
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