OSS Operational Group PAT & Capt Conrad Laqueux Plaque
Details:
Behind the Le Rialet Resistance Fighters Monument and adjacent to the steps
PlaqueA small inscribed plaque set on a granite based, about 2 feet tall, which was sourced in the Tarn near this memorial.
The memorial remembers Capt. Conrad Lagueux of OSS Operational Group PAT where the team executed a successful mission in August 1944. Two OG PAT team members who lost their lives in action against Nazi occupation forces nearby and are remembered on the memorial on the outskirts of Le Rialet.
Monument Text:
The inscription on the plaque is in French and reads:
LA FAMILLE DU CAPTAINE CONRAD E. LAGUEUX
Office of Strategic Services (OSS Symbol) Operational Group PAT
AU CORPS FRANC DU SIDOBRE ET AUX MAQUIS DU TARN SUD
AVEC AFFECTION,RESPECT, ET AMITIE
CHENE PLANTE EN 2004
Translation:
THE FAMILY OF CAPTAIN CONRAD E. LAGUEUX
TO THE SIDOBRE FREE CORPS AND THE SOUTH TARN MAQUIS
WITH AFFECTION, RESPECT, AND FRIENDSHIP
OAK TREE PLANTED IN 2004
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
2671st Special Reconnaissance Battalion
French Resistance
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
OSS
OSS Operational Group PAT
OSS- French Operational Group
Resistance
Wars:
WWII
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