Who knows this code ??

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

" Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor"

Call sign . . . -

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
" Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor"

Call sign . . . -

Call by the BBC to the French resistance that the invasion was on...part two ,and final part of the message

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Call by the BBC to the French resistance that the invasion was on...part two ,and final part of the message

On 1 June, the BBC put out the initial warning- the first line of Paul Verlaine's Chanson d'automne ('Les sanglots longs des violins d'automne')-and during the evening of 5 June it broadcast the next line ('Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone')-thus warning the French Resistance and German radio operators with the Fifteenth Army that Allied landings were less than two days away.

Credit: HP Willmot, June 1944, Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset,ISBN 0 7137 1446 8

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
" Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor"

Call sign . . . -

also from the movie, "The longest day"; Jean has a long moustache...je repete...Jean has a long moustache.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
" Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor"

Call sign . . . -

Garry...
So what do I win...???
And we are going to need a drummer at CC5 in Chatsworth on the weekend of the 23-26 June..
Are you coming..??

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Garry...
So what do I win...???
And we are going to need a drummer at CC5 in Chatsworth on the weekend of the 23-26 June..
Are you coming..??

Hmmm...A solo Drummer's Salute?

[horsa]

The general warning order about the invasion being near was for all units operating in occupied France. The BBC also broadcast personal messages at a designated time in code for individual operatives and the various Maquis' in France.

The German high command knew about the general message regarding the invasion but didn't have all of the codes for the personal messages since they were specific to the individual groups. The Allies couldn't hide the buildup so it wasn't really a secret that we were coming as much as where we would land.

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Garry...
So what do I win...???
And we are going to need a drummer at CC5 in Chatsworth on the weekend of the 23-26 June..
Are you coming..??

In two words "No car".Wish I could.There's nothimg like an early morning drummer wake up march down a row of tents whose contents are in the middle of hang-overs.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
In two words "No car".Wish I could.There's nothimg like an early morning drummer wake up march down a row of tents whose contents are in the middle of hang-overs.

Get a hold of Marc Montgomery..
May be he has room for you.
Would like to see you there.

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Garry Shipton
In two words "No car".Wish I could.There's nothimg like an early morning drummer wake up march down a row of tents whose contents are in the middle of hang-overs.

Or take the Via down to Toronto, and we'll bus it together up to Owen Sound and crash with Skagfeld. All things are possible. Bring a piper with you... nothing like 'Highland Laddie' to wake up those suffering...

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Or take the Via down to Toronto, and we'll bus it together up to Owen Sound and crash with Skagfeld. All things are possible. Bring a piper with you... nothing like 'Highland Laddie' to wake up those suffering...

Geez Geoff,I forgot.While doing my heeland inventory,I found my old Black Watch bugle that drummers wear when wearing full dress ceremonial uniform,hell that thing would wake up the dead.
AAAH,nothing like the strains of the Last Post at midnight to lull the boys to bed.