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#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1943, Jacqueline Nearne parachutes into occupied France. She operates as as a courier for the Special Operations Executive for fifteen months before being withdrawn from the field. The SOE worked with the French Resistance to sabotage the occupying Nazi forces.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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This is excellent news - a collection to pay for the children's memorial at #Lidice to be restored has had a huge boost.
They still don't have the full amount they need, though. If you can make a donation, please do. It's a wonderful monument to a truly horrific event.
The pilot of a German Messerschmitt Bf109G ejects after his aircraft is hit during a dog fight with an RAF Spitfire - England, date unknown #ww2 #worldwar2 #history #bf109 #me109 #dogfight #ejectorseat #eject #england #aviation
🧵 #OnThisDay, 23 Aug 1941, American Virginia Hall arrives in France to work for the British Special Operations Executive.
Hall ended up on the German's “most wanted” list as 'the limping lady'.
#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory #FlashbackFriday #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
American World War II era Alien Registration records (AR-2 Forms) & their Flexoline index have been transferred from USCIS to the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). The index & the AR-2 digital images from microfilm (as supplied) have been processed into a functional database.
Details & links to several NARA webpages are provided by Records Not Revenue
https://www.recordsnotrevenue.com/ar-2-and-flexoline
NARA's own Alien Files (A-Files) page
https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/aliens
#OnThisDay, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She had turned 20 two weeks earlier.
She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #Histodons #EuropeanHistory
More war-comic things have been posted for my amazing patrons and studio members ❤️
I'm deep in the experimentation phase for this now. Doing collage and burning.
https://patreon.com/JennieGyllblad
https://www.jenniegyllblad.com/studio
#MastoArt #Comics #WorldWar2 #WW2 #SliceOfLife #Comic #TraditionalArt #FediArt #Art
Very early #OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a radio operator for the Special Operations Executive.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
“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.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #History #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
