The Daughters of Blue Squadron: forgotten heroines of the post-war period

In July 1945, as Europe tried to recover from the rubble of the Second World War, an unknown and out-of-standard mission was entrusted to a group of young French women. Baptised the Blue Escadron, this mobile unit of the French Red Cross, composed of a dozen voluntary nurses and ambulance workers, simmered in a tragic and heroic odyssey through a ravaged Europe to repatriate the French survivors still scattered on the continent. Their story was …