Operatives assigned to the French section.
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster was the leader of the non-Gaullist French section (F Section) of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945. He was responsible for the recruitment, training, and deployment of hundreds of agents into occupied France to conduct sabotage and intelligence gathering.
Lise de Baissac was a British citizen of Mauritian birth and one of the first female agents parachuted into occupied France by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Operating under various codenames, she established resistance circuits and coordinated sabotage and weapons distribution.
Headmaster 2 was a clandestine network established by the F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Sarthe department of France during World War II, focused on organizing resistance groups and providing weapons instruction.
Lise de Baissac was a Mauritian-born British citizen and one of the first female agents parachuted into occupied France by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Operating under codenames such as Odile and Marguerite, she served as a circuit organizer and sabotage coordinator between 1942 and 1944.
Wireless operators were the critical communication links between the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in London and its clandestine networks in occupied Europe. Tasked with transmitting intelligence and requesting supplies, they faced the highest risk of capture and execution due to German radio-direction finding technology.
Odette Sansom was a French-born agent for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who worked as a courier in occupied France during the Second World War. After surviving torture and imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp, she became the first woman to be awarded the George Cross.
Section F (France) of the Special Operations Executive was a clandestine UK organization responsible for espionage, sabotage, and supporting the French Resistance from 1941 until the liberation of France. Before D-Day, it deployed hundreds of agents to disrupt Axis infrastructure and organize indigenous resistance groups.
Eliane Plewman (1917–1944) was a British agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who served as a courier for the ‘Monk’ circuit in occupied France. She was captured by the Gestapo and executed at the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944.
The Prosper Network (also known as the Physician network) was the most significant SOE circuit in occupied France during 1943. Based in Paris and led by Francis Suttill, it grew to a massive scale before its sudden and catastrophic collapse in June 1943.
Vera Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer and Deputy Director of the SOE’s F Section during World War II. She is renowned for her wartime leadership and her determined post-war quest to uncover the fate of missing female agents in Nazi-occupied Europe.