World War 2 & French Resistance

My father William Rader served in the OSS and worked in France during August of 1944 with the French Resistance behind the German lines at the time. Here is many of his amazing photos of the mission taken with his team.

Also there is a you tube video below I added of his exploits and his OSS teams in the JURA region of France during the same time.  

 

Dad's descriptions of the many actions are also included here as well as a French Translation that I presented in France last summer in La Motte, Lons Le Saunier as well.  I awarded them and the Museum of the Resistance and Deportation in Besancon  the OSS Congressional Medal of Honor for each of the towns many brave underground activities during WW2.

One of the French newspapers in Lons-Le-Saunier covered the medal ceremony and the mayor honored me [and Dad] with an honorary citizenship of the city which I am forever grateful for and I know my dad was pleased watching from the heavens above.  See article below in French of course.

"The American Came to Lons-Le-Saunier with an exclusive documentL we explain.""Cette Américaine est venue à Lons-le-Saunier avec un document exclusif : on vous explique." At the end of June 2024, Linda Overman came directly from the USA with an unpublished video in her luggage. We tell you everything about this story. Voix du Jura. 3 July, 2024.