To go along with the first post, a name familiar to those of the 1st Special Forces Regiment.
One of the teams operating in advance of Seventh Army was
Team Packard. Deploying from Algiers on the night of
31 July {1944}, Packard, under
Capt. Aaron Bank, jumped into the
Lazare Department, a region of forested mountains and small cities near the Rhone Valley. Caught in the middle of various political squabbles between Communist and Gaullist partisans, they provided assistance to both groups but worked more closely with the non-Communist elements, initially arming and training them, and then accompanying them on occasional forays against railroad bridges and tunnels. When the Germans began to withdraw following Patch's breakout from the ANVIL beachhead on 19 August, the partisans stepped up the tempo of their operations, harassing the Germans with roadblocks and ambushes and providing intelligence and all possible assistance to the advancing Allied forces. To the end the various resistance factions continued to compete with one another, each attempting to be the first to liberate the French cities and towns. Exuberant Frenchmen feted Bank's team with wine and food and even offered free service at a local bordello. By 3 September few Germans remained in the area, and the team drove to Grenoble to await further orders.
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/70-42/70-423.htm
The pic is a Jedburgh trooper preparing for a parachute deployment into enemy held territory.
Richard