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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8555644.stm

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/War-heroine-Andree-Peel-celebrates-104th-birthday/article-667495-detail/article.html 


This woman is simply marvelous! She's the type who continues to fight on when all hope seems lost. May she rest in peace.

Andree Peel was involved in distributing clandestine newspapers but soon she was made head of an under-section in the Resistance, reporting on troop movements, naval installations and the results of Allied attacks.

Under the code name Agent Rose, she used torches to guide Allied planes to improvised landing-strips, and smuggled fugitive airmen on to submarines and gun-boats on remote parts of the coast.

Her information gathering prompted the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to write her a personal letter of congratulation – although it had to be destroyed immediately after reading.

Andree Peel lived through the hell of 2 Nazi concentration camps before dinally being freed. She suffered meningitis, and was almost shot by a firing squad at the Buchenwald concentration camp when the US Army arrived to free the prisoners. This woman has a backbone of titanium. I hope that we'll never forget what she and countless other hero/ines risked to save us.
 

She said: "You don't know what freedom is if you have never lost it. Everybody was ready to contribute to the fight and to risk their lives.

"It was a kind of fear that was not really fear. We had accepted we would die. The only fear we had was of being tortured and of speaking under torture. We were fortifying ourselves against it. I rarely thought of my personal safety, I just acted and did what I believed was the right thing."