ABSTRACT
Jean Tréhiou, Raoul Parent and Jean Hamon, the three MI9 agents landed at Anse-Cochat on 16/17 June 1944 to set up a new organisation for the evacuation of aircrew, were to have only two months before the Germans fell back on Brest before the United States 3rd Army. A point on the coast was sought between Aber-Wrac’h and the Ile-de-Sieck/Ile-deBatz area, and the beach Tréhiou chose was Grach-Dzu, near Clogourouan, scene of CARPENTER I and of Peter Harratt’s unsuccessful first attempt in April 1943 to land Erwin Deman to set up SOE’s ‘Var’ line. A successful first contact with Tréhiou was established there by MGB 502 a month after he arrived back in France, and four suitcases of stores were landed to him, but there were no airmen waiting to be picked up.
