The Mass grave of Signs |
July 18, 29 resistant Marseillais are taken along by truck in a clearing of the surroundings of Signs, where they will be cut down without judgement and jetés in a pit dug with their intention. |
One can noted names such as Louis-Martin Bret, directing WALL (plain Movements of Resistance) for the Low-Alps, or of Robert Rossi, which was a regional head of the FFI |
Muthula d' Errecalde was a member of the OSS which had arrived from Corsica in a boat, according to a system of transport developed by a French officer named François Pelletier. Furrier was carried out him also following the infiltration of the operation by a traitor working for Ernest Dunker (Delage). The mission of Errecalde was to inspect the sites of unloading around Muy in preparation for the arrival of the parachutists of the operation Anvil | |
During the summer 1944, the release of the south of France was imminent. The American, British units and Frenchwomen who formed the 7th Army of the General Alexander Patch involved around Naples, in Corsica and Algeria, and waited to embark on board buildings and planes for the operation Anvil (renamed then Dragoon), who was to make them unload on the Riviera on the level of Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus and of Saint-Tropez. |