photo of Francine Agazarian in civilian clothes. She is a white woman with light hair.

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   “Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”

   #OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.

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