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Memorial French Resistance Plagne Centre (Mâcot-la-Plagne)

This memorial has been erected in memory of the RAF who dropped supplies for the resistance and also the three resistance fighters who died in the Second World War.

On the memorial are two plaques with this text:
ICI
LE 10-3-1944
PARACHUTAGE
DE 12 TONNES D'ARMES
PAR LA R.A.F
RECUPERE PAR LE MAQUIS
AVEC L'AIDE DE LA Ste
DES MINES DE LA PLAGNE

AMICALE DE L'ARMEE SECRETE
DE MACOT


A LA MEMOIRE DE
ILIA GOLOUBINOW
INGENIEURDU FOND - LIEUTENANT F.F.I.
ET DE SES DEUX COMPAGNONS DE COMBAT
YVES NOYREY
LOUIS SERVIGNAT
BLESSES MORTELLEMENT AU COMBAT DE LAVAL
LE 4 AOUT 1944


The translation of the text:
HERE
ON 10-3-1944
DROP
OF 12 TONNES OF WEAPONS
BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
USED BY THE MAQUIS
WITH THE HELP OF THE
MINERS OF LA PLAGNE


IN MEMORY OF
ILIA GOLOUBINOW
LIEUTENANT FFI
AND HIS TWO COMRADES
YVES NOYREY
LOUIS SERVIGNAT
DEADLY INJURED IN THE BATTLE OF LAVAL
4 AUGUST 1944

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