Violette Szabo and other female agents were sent to France by F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. F Section (French Section), part of SOE, set up as a clandestine organization “to set Europe ablaze”, as Winston Churchill once said.
Born Odette Hallowes in Amiens in 1912.
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