On a beautiful late-summer afternoon in 1977, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade took her place at the end of a wide grassy field near the town of Ussel, nestled in the verdant foothills of south central France. Standing to one side was a large crowd of onlookers, who had traveled from all over the country to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of Alliance’s first Lysander flight to Britain in August 1942.
