Well, something different this time( or maybe not ):

Susan Travers was awarded the Military Medal and the Legion d’Honneur for leading a convey of men and vehicles breaking out from the siege by Rommel of Bir Hakeim, across the minefields of no-man’s-land and past Rommel’s Panzer tanks. After the war she became a regular serving officer in the Foreign Legion – the only women ever to do this.

http://africanhistory.about.com/cs/w...sanTravers.htm

The book has a picture of the letter Rommel sent to Bir Hakeim telling them to surrender!!!



In 2000, at the age of 91, assisted by Wendy Holden she wrote her autobiography Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion, having waited for all the other principals in her life story to die before writing it.

http://www.fact-index.com/s/su/susan_travers.html

[ 16. March 2004, 12:38 PM: Message edited by: Kai-Petri ]

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Kai, did that group of infantry and vehicles get invovled with fighting or were they just retreating, in other words did Ms. Travers coordinate attacks or lead the retreat?

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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it- Sun Tzu

Hi Onthefield,

I´m just starting to read the book but I had to take a look on those pages but I think she was leading the retreat.I´ll be back when I know more!

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Susan Travers (September 23, 1909 - December 18, 2003)

R.I.P. Susan!

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