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SECOND PHASE.
(July 1 to December 31, 1945)
MMLA ( Mission Militaire pour le Liaison Alliee ).
On July 1, 1945, UNRRA Teams Nos. 717 and 718, formerly two MMLA teams, arrived at Junkers Camp and combined under the leadership of Miss Yvonne Tabard, 1st Lt., French Army, leader of the first group, as UNRRA Team 717. The composition of these two group was as follows:
Team 717
Miss Y. Tabard, 1st Lt., French Army | - | Director | - | French |
Miss A. Levert | - | Asst. | - | French |
Miss L. Portman, 2nd Lt., French Army | - | Welfare Off. | - | Swiss |
Miss P. Duffreysseix | - | Cook | - | French |
Team 719
All these girls, other than the commissioned officers, held one non-commissioned rank or another in the French Army. Under the terms of their induction into UNRRA which had taken place a short time before, they had been permitted to retain their military rank and their French military uniform. They wore MMLA shoulder flashes, and their sedans were marked "French Liaison". They were said to have done excellent work under conditions of considerable hardship and danger in the earliest days of the DP operation when attached to the American First Army, and they had served, among other places, in Buchenwald concentration camp. Miss Tabard and Miss Portman had both been decorated with the Bronze Star, and Miss Tabard has also won the Belgian Croix de Guerre. Miss Portman was 20, and Miss
Tabard