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#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
@CarveHerName These women were insanely brave.
@CarveHerName this needs a movie! Someone call Cate Blanchet.
@platypusparent there are several movies. School for Danger (1946) and Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) both had real life SOE women as advisers.
@CarveHerName Absolute courage of lions
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