Agent for the Resistance: A Belgian Saboteur in World War II

Lanny Spencer led the discussion of Herman Bodson's story about the Belgian resistance group, the OMBR (Office Militaire Belge de Résistance). With a Doctorat es Sciences in Chemistry from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he was well-positioned to become a leader in the sabotage and guerrilla warfare efforts of the resistance against the Nazis. He was chief of a guerrilla band in the Ardennes forests, where his group sabotaged railroads, bridges, trains, and a key underground international telephone line that linked Nazis commanders in Berlin with those in occupied Paris.

During the Battle of the Bulge, he served as a medical assistant to an American military doctor in Bastogne during the winter siege by German troops. Then he led efforts to track down German stay-behind agents and expose traitors in Belgium until the war was over.