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André manuscript account of his career on letterhead of
Mrs. André Scheinmann, 44 Wilson Street, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02748
See French Department of Defense records of his service and attestation of his belonging to the networks
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Legion of Honor (Officer)
Medal of the Resistance (")
2 War Crosses with Palms
1 War Cross with Star
Volunteer Cross
Medal of the Deported
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Military Activity:
1939: Volunteered for duty
Incorporated at the end of August 1939 into the 43rd Infantry regiment
Wounded in Belgium in 1940
Brought back in Ambulance train to Brittany
Prisoner of war in evacuation hospital
Escape in June 1940 in Rennes (Brittany) 
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Hired as interpreter at the French National Railroad
Named representative of the French Railroad (S.N.C.F.) delegated to the occupying authorities
Organization of a network of sabotage and intelligence across the expanse of all Brittany
Found a contact with the English
Newtwork 31
My number: 31 AQ
Intelligence reports sent to England every week August-Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec 1940
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Until the arrest of the head of network
( A woman named Mrs. Lou[i]s)
Reestablished contact- with another intelligence
Network "Jonny"
This network after authorization of the English
Organized my departure from Occupied
France to England
Meatime established contact with
A Free French network named
"Over[c]Loud" which actually
helped me to go to England.
Detached from the French Authorities in
England to be officially [to next page]
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… to be part of the English I.S.
(Intelligence Service)
I was taken in hand by the
head of the IS French section of
the I.S. commander Dunderdale
who had originally been part of
the British navy (commander of
a submarine)
an extraordinary man. My
superior was Mr. Thomas Green
who minded me when I was
in England.
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NB:
The English don't know my name, They knew me under the name :
André Mauric Peulevey
Born 7/11/1915
Registration number I.S. 99421
In England, I was giving training
In parachuting, I learned to code
And decode.
They found me useful enough to
Designate a radio operator for me
personally.
Meanwhile in France the network
That had helped me had been
Infiltrated and the Gestapo were waiting for
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Immediately upon my return I was arrested and
Incarcerated in Paris at the prisone of
Fresne where more than 500 members of
Different networks were shut up
I spent 11 months in secret, in solitary,
And was interrogated 33 times. Through
It all I held on and revealed nothing about
What I knew of others. That
Probably saved my life, for the members
Of my first network 31 who had talked
Were all shot. I was deported in
July 1942 [Error: it was 1943]. My first camp was
Natzweiler/Struthof. My registration number
Was: 4368 category NN
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"Nacht u. Nebel" Night and Fog.
Evacuated in Dec. [Sept.] to Dachau where I was
Liberated by the 6th US army
(General Patton) Then returned to Paris
Reintegrated into the [French] army as Lt. Colonel.
In service in the US as a French officer in the Reserves, André tastes soup on a US army base.
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