Lise de Baissac in her First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) uniform. She is a white woman with fair hair.

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   #OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1944, Lise de Baissac returns to France to resume work as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

   She gathered and passed on information, and took part in armed attacks. At one point she rented a room in a house occupied by the local commander of the German Forces.

   Muriel Byck also arrives to be a SOE wireless operator. She dies of meningitis whilst still in France.

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