Posted on Jan 4, 2016

Churchill's heroines: How Britain's female secret agents changed the course of WWII

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Female agents of the Special Operations Executive were dropped by parachute behind enemy lines. They blended into the population and helped form a "secret army".

Churchill's heroines: How Britain's female secret agents changed the course of WWII

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Some of them gave their lives for the cause. This is my own photo of the plaque remembering four of them at Dachau.

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Churchill's heroines: How Britain's female secret agents changed the course of WWII

Churchill's heroines: How Britain's female secret agents changed the course of WWII

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