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Estimates of the number of F Section female agents vary. Thirty-nine female SOE agents were trained in Britain. The following list of forty-one agents is taken from M.R.D. Foot, the official historian of the SOE, with two additions: Madeleine Barclay who served (and died) on a ship contracted to SOE and Sonia Olschanezky, a locally-recruited courier who was executed.
Initially employed as a lift operator, she quickly rose to the position of secretary to SOE Controller Patrick Howarth. Contrary to her film portrayal as a field agent, historical records suggest her primary contributions were administrative, though she played a key role in planning operations and possibly training female spies.
Eileen Mary "Didi" Nearne MBE, Croix de Guerre (15 March 1921 [1] [2] – 2 September 2010 (date body found)) was a member of the UK's Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during World War II. [3] The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers.
According to William Stevenson's The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II (Arcade Publishing, 2006), Atkins' first mission was to get Poland's cryptologists Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski out of the country, and she was a member of the British military mission (MM-4), alongside Colin ...
Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R. J. Minney. [1]The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France.
The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-62681-292-5. OCLC 893688998. Purnell, Sonia (2019). A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. ISBN 978-0-7352-2530-5.
Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of civilian women who became undercover agents in Occupied France during the Second World War. [1] The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 17 January 1988 and 25 February 1990 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series ...
S. Salting the Battlefield; School for Danger; Sebastian (1968 film) Second Bureau (1936 film) The Secret Agent (1996 film) The Seventh Survivor; Shadow Dancer (2012 film)