Secret WW2

"By the light of the moon, clandestine pilots broke through the boundaries of wartime France to land agents and operators on makeshift landing sites in farmers’ fields. They carried with them weapons, knowledge, and often documents that would change the course of the Second World War and reshape Europe thereafter. These flights, and the materials transported on them, lay at the heart of a complex and fragile world of wartime resistance: improvised, dangerous, and deeply dependent on the movement of ideas, people and matériel. "Using the transfer of the music and lyrics for the Chants des Partisans (transferred by Hudson in 1943), this talk will explore one such transfer to give a sense of how Franco-British cooperation enabled wartime resistance. In these moments of transfer, we can track different levels of resistance activity -from the intellectual, cultural, and political émigrés who created these documents, to the military and intelligence organisations that transported them into Occupied France, and finally to the networks of resisters who interpreted, adapted, and mobilized their content." Talk by Dr Andrew WM Smith, Deputy Dean of Education, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Queen Mary University, London Andrew is also a director of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign to restore the former RAF Tangmere control tower https://tangmere-museum.org.uk/talks-ideas-in-flight/

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