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Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt (1 January 1906, Chassey-lès-Montbozon, Haute-Saône – 1986), code name Lucas, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.

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  • Pierre de Vomécourt (fr)
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  • Pierre de Vomécourt, né le 1er janvier 1906 à Chassey-lès-Montbozon (Haute-Saône) et mort le 7 mars 1986 à Saint-Quentin-du-Dropt (Lot-et-Garonne), fut pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale un agent secret français du Special Operations Executive, qui fonda et dirigea le premier réseau de résistance de cette organisation en France occupée, le réseau AUTOGIRO. (fr)
  • Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt (1 January 1906, Chassey-lès-Montbozon, Haute-Saône – 1986), code name Lucas, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. (en)
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  • Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt (1 January 1906, Chassey-lès-Montbozon, Haute-Saône – 1986), code name Lucas, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Vomécourt founded and headed SOE's first Resistance network (also called circuit) in occupied France. His AUTOGIRO network operated in and around Paris from May 1941 to April 1942. He was captured by the Germans in April 1942. After nearly a year of mostly solitary confinement in Fresnes Prison near Paris, he spent the rest of the war imprisoned in Nazi Germany in Colditz Castle, a POW camp for military officers. He was freed by the allied armies in April 1945. In the estimation of the official historian of SOE, M. R. D. Foot, Vomecourt was SOE's "first important agent in France." Vomécourt's "early role was of essential importance" in establishing the framework for British assistance to French groups resisting the German occupation. The first of many hundreds of SOE airdrops of arms and equipment for the French Resistance was arranged by Vomécourt and his wireless operator, Georges Bégué. Vomécourt also unmasked the double agent Mathilde Carré, "the Cat." (en)
  • Pierre de Vomécourt, né le 1er janvier 1906 à Chassey-lès-Montbozon (Haute-Saône) et mort le 7 mars 1986 à Saint-Quentin-du-Dropt (Lot-et-Garonne), fut pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale un agent secret français du Special Operations Executive, qui fonda et dirigea le premier réseau de résistance de cette organisation en France occupée, le réseau AUTOGIRO. (fr)
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