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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Danica Kirka

A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny, French President Emmanuel Macron kissed her on both cheeks and pinned the nation’s highest honor to her lapel.

Lamb spent the months before D-Day alone in a tiny room in central London drawing the detailed maps that guided landing craft to the beaches of Normandy as Allied forces began their invasion of occupied France on June 6, 1944. The work was so secret she didn’t even tell her husband.

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