Edmond Paul Debomarche is a military figure in France. Born on December 15, 1906 in Dijon ( Côte d'Or ) and died on March 28, 1959 in Suren ( Hautes -de-Seine , Ile-de-France ). He was a hero of the Resistance , a prisoner of the resistance, awarded the Order of Liberation of France ("comrade-in-arms of liberation").
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Biography
Being originally an aviator, he could not become a pilot due to poor vision. After that, he enters the service at the Post Office, telegraph and telephone (French communications and mail service). He was mobilized in September 1939 as a signalman, demobilized in June 1940, and, having refused defeat, joined the ranks of the resistance.
World War II
At the PTT postal ministry, Ernest Pruvost, with the assistance of Simone Michel Levy and Maurice Orve, creates a national resistance group called ACTION PTT, which Debomarchet will join a little later. In 1942, he created the PTT headquarters, also called “PTT Resistance” or “Communication Services,” in the North. Subsequently, the best opponents regroup, Action PTT and PTT headquarters merged in 1943 into “PTT Resistance”. The PTT headquarters takes over the postal services of the Notre Dame Brotherhood, an intelligence network created by Colonel Remy, and collaborates, for more military purposes, with the Civil and Military Organization CMO. In July 1943, the Quick Assistance Service, which he created to deliver illegal mail, reached Normandy.
“Mail and equipment arriving from London by sea were transported from Pont Aven to the nearest carrier, who locked them in a lead mail bag. In Paris, this bag was loaded into the PTT van, which delivered it to the specified address. The same process was used for our couriers in England, and everything would have become even easier if it were an air operation: a PTT van, which was allowed to travel everywhere, at any time of the day or night, was heading close to the place, picking up mail and departing passengers and returned mail and arriving passengers, ”- Colonel Remy. Long-distance underground lines ensured the transportation of all mail of resistance organizations.
Day J / Day D. Landing in Normandy
After the first arrest of the Gestapo on January 2, 1944, he managed to obtain three secret codification codes used by the French militia of Darnand and use them to decrypt copies of all encrypted telegrams that pass through the Paris telegraph center and transmit them to the British secret services. On day J, he prevented all the destruction and sabotage of telephone channels in accordance with his "purple" plan, adopted by the British, against the sabotage of telecommunications by the enemy, to accompany the Allied landing in Normandy.