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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 June 16/17, 1943: Noor Inayat Khan and Cicely Lefort step out of a Lysander aircraft on a French meadow in the Loire Valley, the second aircraft in a double Lysander mission transporting four agents. #NoorInayatKhan #CicelyLefort #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 June 16, 1944: SOE agent Francisque "Frank" Bec, an instructor in SOE's Headmaster network, is killed in action during an attack on the Charnie maquis by the Germans near Chemiré-en-Charnie in northern France. #FrancisqueEugeneBec #FSection #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 June 15, 1908: Vera Atkins CBE is born. She was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer for SOE's French Section who recruited and deployed agents during World War II. #VeraAtkins #FSection #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧 More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_A…
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 June 12/13, 1944: Captain Gaston Cohen leaves England and parachutes into France to work as W/T operator. His network soon collapses and he is arrested, but escapes and makes his way back to England via Spain. #GastonArmandCohen #FSection #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 June 10, 1944: Violette Szabo is captured after a gunfight with SS troops, during which she suffered a twisted ankle but provided covering fire for Jacques Dufour who escaped. She is later executed in Ravensbrück. #VioletteSzabo #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🆂🅰🅻🅴🆂🅼🅰🅽 🅸🅸 🅽🅴🆃🆆🅾🆁🅺 The agents were sent to set up and run the Salesman II network in the département of Haute-Vienne, led by Liewer. Guiet was the W/T operator, Maloubier the weapons instructor and Szabo the courier. #SalesmanIINetwork #FSection #SOE #WW2 2/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 June 7/8, 1944: Jean-Claude Guiet, Philippe Liewer, Bob Maloubier and Violette Szabo fly from England and parachute into occupied France. #JeanClaudeGuiet #PhilippeLiewer #BobMaloubier #VioletteSzabo #SalesmanIINetwork #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🆅🅸🅳🅴🅾 This short video provides a superb overview of Witherington's activities as a secret agent who led SOE's Wrestler network during World War II. #PearlWitherington #FSection #WrestlerNetwork #SOE #WW2 2/3 youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_cc4lh…
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 June 1, 1987: Vera Atkins CBE is interviewed by @I_W_M about her wartime experiences. She was an intelligence officer for SOE's French Section who recruited and deployed agents. #VeraAtkins #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3 IWM interview: iwm.org.uk/collections/item/…
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 May 30/31, 1942: SOE agents Benjamin Cowburn and Edward Wilkinson leave England in a RAF Halifax and parachute into Vichy France. #BenjaminCowburn #EdwardWilkinson #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 May 28/29, 1944: Eugène Bec, Sonya Butt and Pierre-Raymond Glaesner leave England and parachute into occupied France. After Bec is KIA she took on the added role of weapons instructor. #EugèneBec #SonyaButt #PierreRaimondGlaesner #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 May 25, 1923: Sgt. Edward Cornick, MM, MiD, CG is born. He joined SOE as a W/T operator and served in France and Burma. @richard_duckett #EdwardAlfredCornick #FSection #Force136 #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧 More information: soeinburma.wordpress.com/the…
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 May 22, 1901: Denis Rake MC is born. Openly gay, he joined SOE after overhearing a conversation in a pub about a secret group working behind enemy lines. #DenisRake #FSection #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_…
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 May 20/21, 1943: SOE agents France Antelme and Francis Suttill leave England in a RAF Halifax and parachute into German-occupied France. #FranceAntelme #FrancisSuttill #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 May 19/20, 1943: SOE agents John Starr and John Young leave England in a RAF Halifax and parachute into occuped France. Starr to lead the Acrobat network with Young as his W/T operator. #JohnRenshawStarr #JohnCuthbertYoung #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/2
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🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅼🅾🅽🆃🅷 May 1941: Philippe de Vomécourt is recruited into the SOE by his brother Pierre. He would organise and lead the Ventriloquist network. Arrested near Limoges, he escaped Eysses Prison with 52 other prisoners. #PhilippeDeVomécourt #FSection #SOE #WW2 1/2
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