#truestoryTuesday
Tomorrow is Veterans’ Day in the U.S. and Armistice or Remembrance Day elsewhere and we thought we’d remember some female veterans today.
In World War Two, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) trained thirty-nine women agents in Great Britain. Half were caught, and a third were killed. But some succeeded in their missions – blowing up weapons’ caches, shutting down trains, and most of all, collecting intelligence to help ensure that D-Day would succeed.
Odette Sansom was one of these female spies, and she left behind a home anc children in England to support the war effort in occupied France. She was later captured, but told the Gestapo nothing and managed to survive. In 1946, Odette Sansom was awarded the George Cross (GC) for refusing to betray her fellow secret agents under torture. She died in 1995, aged 82.