Throughout much of the day Thursday and Friday, scores of French volunteers presented themselves at the schools offering to substitute for the children as hostages.
For two years running, Preservation Volunteers has been able to recruit all the French volunteers it needs, a total of 15.
The women were briefly arrested by a German patrol but persuaded the soldiers that they were French volunteers and therefore had no papers.
He was able to recruit a band of French volunteers.
At the time an older friend, already a high-ranking officer, became involved with another officer, a French volunteer.
"There's a body in there and we can't find her," a man pleadingly told one of the French volunteers, Anne Laure.
His projects include a hospital run by French volunteers that treats fighters and civilians wounded in parts of the country not under Government control.
In the fall of 1951, the French volunteers took part in the battle of Heartbreak Ridge where they won fame again during a night attack.
"The Secret Bridge", an original six page story inside, concerns a French volunteer.
Pigneau was forced to use funds raised in France and enlist French volunteers.