#OnThisDay, 17 June 1943, Noor Inayat Khan, Diana Rowden and Cecily Lefort arrive in occupied France for their separate Special Operations Executive missions. None of them survive.

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#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.

She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945.

Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.

Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1944, Ginette Jullian parachutes into occupied France with the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

She works as a wireless operator behind enemy lines for three months until the Allied forces overtake her unit.

With all the dumb stuff happening in the world right now, it's hard to remember that people did important things once. Like Lt. James Doohan, Royal Canadian Artillery, who was shot by Nazis six times during the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944.
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From Holden Thorpe’s Editorial in the May 8, 2025 issue of #Science , quoting Danielle Allen, #Harvard Professor of Political ‘Science’, #Democracy and #Philosophy who argues for a new “‘horizontal’ relationship between #universities and the #American people - one that is based on mutual respect and reciprocity. She also makes a compelling call for universities to do a better job of expressing appreciation for the support of #HigherEducation in the decades since #WorldWar2.”

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#OnThisDay, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd turned 20 two weeks earlier.

She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.

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PZL.37 Łoś in Romanian Service
26 PZL.37 bombers were withdrawn to Romania after the fall of Poland, and after that seized and used in the 4th Group of the Romanian Airforce consisting of the 76th and 77th bomber escadres. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/pzl-37-los-in-romanian-service/ #PZL37Los #polishBomber #RomanianAirForce #aviation #bomber #aircraft #bomberaircraft #aeroplane #WW2 #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar

#OnThisDay, 23 May 1944, Madeleine Lavigne parachutes back into occupied France as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd previously worked for the resistance as a forger and courier.

Radio operators ran the greatest risk of detection, as their position could be triangulated when they were on air.

She died in Paris of an embolism.

#OnThisDay, 23 May 1941 Giliana Balmaceda (Gillian Gerson) lands in occupied France. She is the first woman to be a Special Operations Executive agent in France, and scouts out escape lines and collects documents to be forged.

President Zelensky’s message on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War.