women in the French Foreign Legion, part deux

[Pégase]

a symbolic godmother of the 2ème REP :
http://www.legion-etrangere.info/images/regiment/2REP/rep6.JPG
:lol:

[Chasseur_Alpin]

they have belts of musculation to carry it!
:lol:

[Marmot1]

a symbolic godmother of the 2ème REP :
http://www.legion-etrangere.info/images/regiment/2REP/rep6.JPG
:lol:

Ok next summer I am going to enlist to fench foreign legion... that finaly convinced me :lol: Just printed list of recruitment sites :lol:

[Rantanplan]

Vive la Legion :D

[Vance]

Where do I sign up?

[BR]

a symbolic godmother of the 2ème REP :
http://www.legion-etrangere.info/images/regiment/2REP/rep6.JPG
:lol:
p-)
Is she Laetita Casta??

That's I call a special-secret weapon!!!

[anonymous individual]

:lol:

[volfram]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/2290323551.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Picture of real and only woman ever served in foreign legion:Susan Travers.

[Javehn]

Yes , she was a driver there , during WW2 in the middle east area.

[Ralf174978]

Susan Travers died last year. But she never worn the white Képi (Képi blanc) and she wasn't a legionnaire.

[volfram]

She never worn white kepi because she was formally enroled to the legion as a officer after world war II.Most legion officers never worn white kepi.








ii

[Uninen]

:roll:

Hmm, before this only time Legion and woman are mentioned in same sentance is when talking about Legion bordellos.. :lol:

[Pégase]

hmm, there was a secret love affair behind this :D

[Ralf174978]

Here are some additional infos about the legendary Susan Travers (from the magazine "Képi blanc - La vie de la Légion étrangère"):

http://www.imageshack.us/files1/travers.jpg

[Marmot1]

What ??? She received Croix de la Liberte Finlandaise (bottom right picture) is it Finland Liberation Cross or what if yes was she in finland durring war or so?

[Ralf174978]

Guide Review - Tomorrow be Brave by Susan Travers

You’d think that we’d all know the name of the only woman ever to join the French Foreign Legion, who won medals for her heroism in the Africa Campaign during the Second World War, who had a passionate affair with the Commander of the Free French and the Foreign Legion in North Africa, General Koenig. But Susan Travers chose to wait until “everyone had gone and I was left alone with my medals” to tell of the role she played, and why.

Born in 1909 in London, Susan Travers moved to the south of France in her teens. When the Second World War broke out, she signed up with the French Red Cross as a nurse. She saw her first active service in Finland, then volunteered to join the Free French troops when they went to Africa. Determined not to be left on the sidelines of the war or stick to the expected roles a woman would play, she ended up as driver to General Koening, which saw her in the heat of battle.

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.

Her writing is personal and intense, filled with details of events. Susan Travers may say her greatest regret was not to have been born a boy, but in her life she saw adventures and achieved things many a boy would never.