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|education = Engineer |spouse =Yvonne Gounelle |parents = Auguste Hollard Pauline Monod |children =Francine, Florian ( former conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de la région Centre) and Vincent |occupation=French wartime resister | known_for = Investigation of the V-1 flying bomb facilities in Northern France during World War II |organization= Réseau AGIR, French Resistance |website= |awards = * Commandeur de l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur (France) (1987) * Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) * Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France) * Rosette de la Résistance (France) * Distinguished Service Order (United Kingdom) }} Michel Hollard was a member of the French wartime resistance and engineer, who founded〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.michel-hollard.com )〕 the espionage group Réseau AGIR during World War II. His contribution was recognised by the British by the award of the Distinguished Service Order for having "reconnoitered a number of heavily guarded V-1 sites and reported on them". Hollard's efforts included 49 trips smuggling reports to a British attaché in Switzerland. ==Life== Initially serving in World War I, Hollard subsequently became an engineer and was employed by Maison Gazogène Autobloc, a manufacturer of wood gas generators. Hollard founded AGIR in 1941. Following his capture in February 1944, he was tortured and imprisoned first at Fresnes Prison and in June 1944 as a forced laborer at the main Neuengamme concentration camp (prisoner "F 33,948"). In 1945, as a result of Swedish intervention Hollard was one of a group of prisoners transferred to the ship ''Magdalena'' after being evacuated on April 20 on the prison ship ''Thielbek''. The ''Thielbek'' was sunk on May 3 by a Royal Air Force attack on German shipping. After the war, Hollard "was given the rank of Colonel"〔 and, despite the V-1's destruction of over 80,000 English houses between June and September 1944, Sir Brian Horrocks called him "the man who literally saved London". A high-speed train that operates Eurostar's high-speed rail service between Britain, France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel was named after him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michel Hollard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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