Canadians fighting behind enemy lines – Remembrance Day
Secret agents Raymond LaBrosse and Lucien Dumais rescued hundreds of downed airmen from German-occupied France
It was a moonless night on January 29, 1944. It was drizzling. Sixteen airmen and two M.I.9 secret agents cautiously descended the steep cliffs near the village of Plouha on the Brittany Coast of France in fear of being caught, executed, or worse, tortured. The enemy patrolled the beach below. Thanks to Canadian M.I.9 agents…