CarveHerName on Nostr: Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as ...

Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

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