33. Simone Helps Liberate Her Hometown and Paris
Simone Segouin was with the Resistance fighters of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans when they helped liberate Charters on August 23rd, 1944. She helped capture 25 Germans, and shepherded them to POW pens. Simone and her comrades then linked up with the French 2nd Armored Division as it headed out to liberate Paris, and she was in the thick of the fighting that freed the French capital on August 25th.
For her performance, Simone was promoted to lieutenant and awarded a Croix de Guerre. After the war, she became a pediatric nurse, and in 2017, a street in Courville-sur-Eure, a small town near Charters in which she now lives, was named in her honor.