World War II Honoree
Served Their Country
Jean Jacques Redslob
Hometown
Washington, District Of Columbia
Honored By
Paula Redslob
Relationship
Wife
In September 1939 was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Engineer Corps of the French Army at the start of WWII. In December 1939 he was sent to Morocco and served on the Italian Front in the campaign in Tunisia and the Libyan border. After the defeat of France in June 1940, he remained in Morocco. In 1943 the Americans landed in Morocco and were looking for help from somebody with an intimate working knowledge of the North African and European Railroad systems and approached the Free French Mission to find such a person. He was then drafted by the Free French as 1st Lieutenant and sent to Washington, D.C., where he lived and worked for the next 3 years. He was responsible for the purchase and shipping of needed materials for the rehabilitation of the railroads to support the American war effort of General Clark's 5th Army, wearing the American Uniform.