If The Time Ever Came Could We Again Find Such Brave Heroes As This Great Lady?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846368/Former-British-wartime-spy-93-finally-recognised-liberating-France-Nazi-occupation-decades-spent-keeping-wartime-service-secret.html

[anotheoldgit]

We are not taking about our male troops, but here is a lady who was brought up in the age before women's rights etc, and who joined the WAAFs to train as a mechanic but then was later to put her life at risk spying in an occupied country.

[sandyRoe]

Sometimes patriotism is not enough, AOG.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh I see the question is - is she braver than people now ?

Pity we cant honour her for her outstanding bravery

Being a resistante was quite dangerous - think CIA agent in Iran after the Shah's fall or afghan interpreter - you could wake up dead quite easily
Grandes Affaires de la resistance isnt a bad read - O level French only
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If she was a radio operator rather than coder - she did very well. The radios were heavy being valved and the German RDF service was efficient. Basically you had to haul a damned heavy suitcase into a forest, transmit quick and then leg it quick along with suitcase....they didnt last long.

here is another Roger Landes
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Landes

who was also .... a radio operator in SCIENTIST, same as the good lady

In the article, Roger L gets involved with Andre Grandclement - oo er he ends up getting shot for Treason along with Lucette his wife (!). [ see Grandes Affaires - l'affaire Grandclement is one of them ]

dangerous times

we should honor her Phyllis Doyle for what she did - not as a comparator for nowadays.

[ As a P S why did Andre Grandclement get shot in 1944 ? well he agreed secretly with the Germans that he wouldnt attack them in X-ville and THEY wouldnt shoot anyone they "caught". Later I think a message was decoded where the Germans boasted that one of the resistance leaders in X ville was a German plant. oo-er. AG's own men shot him gladly along with his wife for good measure ]

[Peter Pedant]

Oh dear, another of her colleagues was Henri Dericourt
see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_D%C3%A9ricourt

"En mars 1943, Déricourt et Rémy Clément recherchent et identifient des terrains susceptibles de servir aux atterrissages. Ils vérifient également les LZ du réseau SCIENTIST, que Claude de Baissac « David » anime dans le sud-ouest." fr wiki

l'affaire Dericourt is another chapter in Grandes Affaires, because HD had a second job - working for the Germans

or as Fr wiki puts it: Son cas est cité comme exemple probable de la pénétration du SOE par le MI6 et du MI6 par les services allemands1.

[ his case is an example of possible successful infiltration of MI5 and 6 by German Intelligence ]

After these experiences quite a few anciens resistants took themselves off to the opposite ends of the Earth

[tamborine]

This was a tv series of these brave ladies. Today some brave women are risking their lives aiding the ebola crisis.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Me_Luck

[Peter Pedant]

Thx Tambo missed the series - completely. Some of the progz were fictionalised to avoid presumably people complaining that it was nt like that.

Series 3 was about the maquis de vercours, here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_du_Vercors

The Germans used Ukrainians and Russians (!!) to put down the French in South Western France. No wonder they revolted.

much longer: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_du_Vercors
but O level French needed.

[Peter Pedant]

She gets an honourable mench on this site

http://nigelperrin.com/claudedebaissac.htm#.VHTpUYusWSo

as Phyllis 'Pippa' Latour ( Genevieve )

SCIENTIST has a chequered history - infiltrated and then rounded up
I can see why she didnt particularly want to talk about it