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The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
This is a category for female wartime spies and women accused of being wartime spies. Pages in category "Female wartime spies" The following 139 pages are in this ...
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 ...
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents ...
After World War II, Taylor made the transition back to civilian life. For her military achievements she received the Croix de Guerre and the French Resistance medal twice. [1] In 1955, Taylor emigrated to Ottawa, Canada and worked for the federal government as a stenographer. In 1995, she checked into a veterans' nursing home and died on June 8 ...
Andrée Borrel was born into a working-class family in Bécon-les-Bruyères, a north-western suburb of Paris, France. [5] She was good at sports, while her older sister (Léone) described Borrel as a tom-boy who had the strength, endurance and interests of boys whose favourite pastimes were bicycling in the countryside, hiking and climbing.
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.
Person Notes Reference(s) Carmelo Borg Pisani: Carmelo Borg Pisani was a Maltese-born artist and Italian Fascist who, on being discovered during an espionage mission in Malta, was found guilty by a British war tribunal and executed for treason.