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00:02In the Second World War, British spy agency, the SOE, dropped their first women agents into
00:09Nazi-occupied France. They're hand-picked by spymaster Vera Atkins.
00:17Are you prepared to take the fight to the Nazis?
00:22Behind enemy lines? In occupied France?
00:26As a spy.
00:28But they quickly become targets for the Gestapo.
00:34Odette and Peter Churchill have been captured.
00:37What?
00:38Keep those hands.
00:41Don't worry. You'll be safe with me.
00:46Now Vera's newest recruit, Noor Inayat Khan, is playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with Hitler's intelligence forces.
00:57Do you want people to make you as an agent?
01:01No, of course not. Sorry.
01:03Sorry won't save you from the Gestapo's cell.
01:06But with D-Day approaching, more agents need to be trained.
01:17Good shot.
01:20Good shot.
01:41Send even more agents to strengthen the circuits for D-Day and expect heavy casualties.
01:49But as the Nazis crack down, how long can they remain free?
01:53And how much will they risk in the fight against Hitler's deadly regime?
02:11F-Section wait anxiously for news from Paris.
02:17The day before, they'd received an alarming message from Francis Suttle, the organiser of the Prosper Circuit.
02:25F-Section's largest, based in the French capital.
02:32What? What is it?
02:34Noor was almost arrested at a letterbox.
02:36Suttle claims was blown.
02:38He says if Noor had gone there yesterday, she'd have been met by the Gestapo searching the safe house.
02:43He thinks their security has been compromised.
02:46And this means that the Nazis might know what's going on, and arrests could follow soon.
02:53He is not letting anybody send any information, send other agents.
02:58He's not sure what's going on, and he stops all these flights going in and out of Europe.
03:09Sir.
03:11You should see this.
03:14That'll be all.
03:19Sir?
03:21What is it?
03:23A flash message.
03:25Intel from an agent in Paris.
03:28Suttle and his wireless opera butcher, Gilbert Norman, have disappeared.
03:31Disappeared?
03:34I think they've been arrested.
03:37Arrested?
03:40Message to be confirmed.
03:43Sir, this intel has been marked flimsy.
03:47What if it isn't?
03:50Vera and Buckmaster do not know what's happening in Paris.
03:53If Suttle and Norman have been arrested and are being interrogated by the Gestapo, if they reveal the secrets, then
04:03every single agent that they have in Paris is in danger.
04:16In Paris, Noor is unsure what's happening to the Prosper Circuit.
04:22All she knows are rumours of arrests.
04:27Agents have gone to ground, and Noor can't risk making contact with any other elements of the circuit, in case
04:34they betray her.
04:40Do not do that again.
04:42Do not do that again.
04:44What?
04:46That.
04:48In England, you pour milk first, then tea.
04:51In France, we pour tea first, then milk.
04:57A real French woman would never do that.
05:03No, no.
05:06Oh, no, indeed.
05:08These are basic things that the SOE have taught Noor from the start, and yet the lessons haven't sunk in.
05:15It was incredibly important that any agent going into France blended in, and it was just the little tiny things
05:22that ended up being the huge catastrophe that could see them arrested.
05:27Do you want people to make you as an agent?
05:30No, of course not. Sorry.
05:32Sorry won't save you from a Gestapo cell.
05:36But this isn't the only sign that she's a foreign agent.
05:42I'm buying you new clothes.
05:47What's wrong with my clothes?
05:50Your jacket.
05:52Your English-looking Macintosh jacket.
05:55A Parisian woman wouldn't be caught dead in it.
06:01We'll buy you new, French-looking clothes.
06:07Noor hadn't even finished her SOE training.
06:11With her resistance cell in chaos, now she's been dropped in the deep end and is trying to tread water.
06:29In London, Vera and Buckmaster wait for news on the Prosper Circuit.
06:39But, worryingly, no further messages come through.
06:46Meanwhile, Vera's search for more women spies continues.
07:01It was very important that the recruiting of agents continued.
07:05D-Day was approaching and so the SOE wanted to make sure that when that signal for D-Day came,
07:13they could literally almost flick a switch and they were ready to fight back.
07:19It means finding more agents.
07:24Vera pours over personnel files for potential new recruits.
07:30One is 22-year-old Violette Sabo.
07:35She was born in a British hospital in Paris, of a French mother and an English father.
07:43And then she was schooled in France.
07:46One of the most important things that they needed was somebody who could speak French fluently,
07:52blend in, knew about France, and she had all of those skills already.
07:56But she had some real personal motives for wanting to go back into occupied territory.
08:02Part of the reason is clearly because Etienne, her husband,
08:07had been killed at El Alamein with the free French.
08:13So Etienne never met his daughter.
08:16She was born and unfortunately he died before he had the opportunity to meet her.
08:22And it would have made Violette so fervently passionate about wanting to go out to France
08:29and to fight against the Nazis.
08:31So Violette really would very much like to get her own back and do whatever she could.
08:39And Vera now turns to another recruit put forward by SOE, Yvonne Bazden.
08:48Yvonne Bazden was the daughter of a British father who married a French woman shortly after the First World War.
08:55She spent most of her early childhood in France, which meant she spoke French perfectly.
09:01She felt very much at home in France.
09:03She'd lived there for years before coming to Britain as a teenager.
09:06So in many ways she was the ideal recruit for F Section.
09:12Both Violette Sabo and Yvonne Bazden have strong motivations.
09:20They are assigned to SOE training.
09:28F Section are desperate for news from the Prosper Circuit.
09:34Buck, what is it?
09:37Call sign Butcher. He's trying to transmit from Paris.
09:41After 12 days of radio silence, they get the message they've been waiting for.
09:53What's it say, Buck?
09:55Confirmation.
09:59Francis Suttle has been captured.
10:02The head of the Prosper Circuit, F Section's largest and most important, is in German hands.
10:15Sir, this message, it's unusual.
10:18Has it come to Eclipse?
10:22Butcher's security check is missing.
10:25All SOE agents are trained very carefully that when they send an encoded message,
10:32they have to also at the end send a security check.
10:36These are check words that only they will know.
10:39It could just be atmospheric conditions playing havoc with the signal.
10:43True.
10:46Butcher might also be on the run.
10:50The Gestapo looking for him, he might not have had time to include it.
10:55Could it have been sent by Noor?
10:58Using Butcher's set, or she wouldn't have his specific codes?
11:02Or Butcher's been captured and has given his transmission codes to the Gestapo.
11:07Impossible.
11:08He'd have shot himself before he did that.
11:12Send a reply.
11:15Butcher, you've forgotten your security checks.
11:18Show more care in the future.
11:21The vital wireless link from London to Paris is still in place, for now.
11:28But the Prosper Circuit is fragile.
11:38For those SOE agents on the ground in Paris, their fate is becoming increasingly uncertain.
11:46Contact has been lost with the leaders of the circuit, and it's assumed they're in Gestapo custody.
11:53People are being arrested.
11:56Safe houses are being compromised.
11:58They don't know what to do.
12:00Who can they report to?
12:02Who can they trust?
12:04Where should they go?
12:05What should they do?
12:07However, Noor is still in Paris, and she's still transmitting to London.
12:15F-Section tries to untangle the chaos.
12:21Another report.
12:22There's been more arrests.
12:26How many agents is that now?
12:29Lost track, Boddington.
12:33The Gestapo have raided another weapons dump.
12:37Who is betraying them to the Germans?
12:40If you read these reports, the list of possible traitors is endless.
12:43Sir, that can't be true.
12:44And nothing can be verified.
12:46These reports aren't worth the paper they're written on.
12:49The only thing we know is there's something wrong in Prosper.
12:59Fuck.
13:03We can never make sense of what's happening set on our backsides in London.
13:07If I can take my own wireless operator, I can fly out to Paris, make contact somehow with the circuit,
13:13and work out what the hell is happening once and for all.
13:16Nick.
13:17No.
13:17What if you're called?
13:19It was enormously risky to send Boddington into Paris because he was number two in SOE's F-Section.
13:28So if he was captured and interrogated and he talked, the whole of F-Section could have been blown out
13:36of the water.
13:41Despite the danger, Buckmaster gives him the green light.
13:47It's fine.
13:49Fly to France.
13:51Make your way to Paris and report back what you find.
13:54Good.
13:57Send a message to Butcher.
13:59Arrange a meeting.
14:23Boddington with his wireless operator, Jack Agazarian, are infiltrated into France.
14:31They land just outside Soussel, in the west of the country.
14:47Greeting them is SOE Air Movement Officer, Henri Derricourt.
14:54Nicholas.
14:56Henri.
14:57How long has it been?
14:58Too long.
15:00Jack Agazarian, Henri Derricourt.
15:04It's good to have someone out here we can trust.
15:06I'm your man.
15:08I've arranged a meeting in Paris with a contact close to Soutil.
15:11Excellent work.
15:13Hopefully, they can clear this whole mess up.
15:17Boddington's really relieved because this means he can get down to what's been going on in the Prosper Circuit.
15:22Is it salvageable what's been going on?
15:25And maybe, you know, this Derricourt contact is going to know a lot more.
15:36It's not going to know a lot more.
15:37Back in Britain, new recruits Yvonne and Violette begin their SOE training.
15:44Designed to identify their strengths and weaknesses for action in the field.
15:52The women had the same training as the men of SOE.
15:59It was incredibly gruelling.
16:01It was physically, mentally exhausting.
16:05Very, very hard work.
16:07Things like obstacle courses and map reading.
16:13The women would have been learning skills that they had never thought in a million years they were going to
16:19need.
16:19The women would have been learning skills.
16:22What about the women?
16:27The women would have been learning skills that they had never thought and were missing.
16:34What about the women?
16:39Good to see that the women are still in touch and very good with this culture,
16:39They did not have to read in their ways.
16:39What about the women are still in a lot of ways?
16:39The women are still fishing.
16:40They're still fishing.
16:40It's not a lot of races.
16:41They must be in the way of helping people who are going to help them.
16:44They can actually be in control of their lives.
16:45What you are in control of them...
16:52Next comes weapons handling and shooting practice.
16:58Violette's report says that she was a crack shot,
17:01that she was excellent with firearms.
17:08The agents then move on to parachute training.
17:15All agents have to conduct four jumps.
17:18And for Yvonne, it's a terrifying experience.
17:25There are accounts saying the men were frightened too.
17:29It wasn't just the women.
17:30And it's not surprising because accidents were pretty common.
17:33In the case of Violette Szabo,
17:35she landed awkwardly and damaged her ankle.
17:39It seems a pretty intense injury.
17:42It took several weeks to recuperate.
17:49In London, Vera keeps tabs on her agent's progress.
17:54Violette's training report is on the whole very positive.
17:58She's confident.
17:59She's plucky.
18:00She's physically very tough.
18:04Pretty much everything that they want in an agent.
18:06But the instructors also noted other things that concerned them about Violette.
18:12They say that she's fatalistic in her outlook,
18:15that she lacks a sense of responsibility.
18:17So really some quite negative things they're saying about her.
18:20But Vera Atkins saw the steel that was in Violette.
18:27She would always stand up and fight where necessary.
18:32She had this other quality which did shine through.
18:36A personality, a real personality.
18:39Yes, Vera would have wanted all of that.
18:44Violette is assigned the role of courier.
18:49Yvonne's training report is relatively positive as well.
18:53And in particular with reference to her wireless skills.
18:56So it was obvious really that the role assigned to her was wireless operator.
19:02It's promising news.
19:03More and more women agents are coming through,
19:07soon to be deployed to circuits in France.
19:11But since Noor's wireless message that contact has been lost with leaders of Prosper,
19:17F-section are on tenterhooks.
19:22Who has escaped Gestapo arrest?
19:25And how long can they remain free?
19:57You're here, in France.
19:59Who else is with you?
20:01No one, sir.
20:03The meeting with Sir Till's contact was a trap.
20:06Butcher is definitely in German hands.
20:09Well, are you sure?
20:11One hundred percent.
20:13Aghazarian and I have flipped a coin to see you should go.
20:16It fell to him, so he went.
20:18I waited in the safe house, but he didn't return.
20:21If I had gone, I'd now be sat in a Gestapo torture chamber.
20:28Poor Aghazarian.
20:36Send a message to F-section.
20:38Arrange a Lysander pickup immediately.
20:41I need to get back to London.
20:45Sir?
20:47We followed.
20:55Send a message.
20:57We'll find you in your safe house.
21:00They can't trust anyone, nor has to move.
21:14Meanwhile, Boddington returns to London.
21:29Buck, here's my report.
21:34Prosper is destroyed.
21:37Destroyed?
21:38Entirely?
21:40It's impossible to know which agents are active, which agents are in Gestapo custody, and who can be trusted.
21:48The Gestapo are raiding weapons depots, making arrests.
21:53Prosper as a circuit is a corpse.
21:57It's worse than they could have imagined.
22:00The most important SOE circuit operating in France has been absolutely destroyed.
22:06The most important members of it are in the hands of the SS Gestapo.
22:12It means safe houses are not safe.
22:14People are being arrested.
22:16It means that the people who were in any way connected with the circuit are in grave, grave danger.
22:22There is something else.
22:25One of our agents has been contacted by German military intelligence.
22:29About Deracour.
22:33Deracour?
22:35This Adria officer
22:38claims that Deracour is letting the Gestapo copy all our agents' unencoded letters before sending them back to London.
22:46Preposterous.
22:47I know.
22:50But this agent of ours will be sending this report in.
22:54Officially.
22:56German military intelligence hated the Gestapo.
23:00And are trying to get us to close down the network.
23:03Then the Gestapo won't have anybody to arrest.
23:06This rumour is just that.
23:08A rumour.
23:09We can't and shouldn't act on it.
23:14Agreed.
23:17But it's clear to Buckmaster and Vera that the Prosper Circuit is blown.
23:25167 agents are rounded up, arrested, many of them tortured and some of them killed by the Gestapo.
23:34The Prosper Circuit was the most important in France.
23:39And it's a disaster for the F-Section that it's been blown.
23:44It was crucial to the planning for D-Day because it was a centre of the resistance.
23:52Try and get as many agents back to London as possible.
24:13But one agent who doesn't return is Noor.
24:20Buckmaster writes to Noor and says, come back.
24:24It's very dangerous.
24:25We'll organise a flight for you and get you out.
24:28But Noor says she's the last link left.
24:32She's the last radio operator standing between Paris and England.
24:37I have to be here.
24:39If I've gone, there's no radio operator left.
24:41She feels she can rebuild this circuit.
24:44And Buckmaster receives this message and he asked her to lie low and be very careful.
24:56Despite the danger, Buckmaster realises just how vital she is and keeps her in her post.
25:10She becomes one of F-Section's most important agents as she is their one remaining radio operator in Paris.
25:22And a letter she sends to Vera gives hope that all might not be lost after all.
25:38Dear Miss Atkins, Excuse Pencil.
25:45Your bird has brought me luck.
25:48I remember you so often.
25:50You cheered me up so sweetly before I left.
25:54Lots of things have happened and I haven't been able to settle down properly.
25:59Still, my contacts are regular and I'm awfully happy.
26:05Lots of love.
26:07Yours.
26:08Noor.
26:19Your bird has brought me luck.
26:23But despite the upbeat letter, Vera is worried about Noor.
26:29Noor is clearly operating under great stress.
26:33She's meant to be sending in messages regularly, but most of the wireless messages she's sending are outside the scheduled
26:39times.
26:39And this shows that she's having to move around and having to adapt a lot.
26:43And Vera has reason to worry.
26:48The Gestapo in Paris are now aware of a lone British wireless operator and are on the hunt.
27:01Sir, both Violette Szabo and Yvonne Baston are progressing well.
27:06Very good.
27:07Both their training reports show an increasing aptitude for...
27:11Sir, Miss Atkins, an urgent message from the signals room.
27:15Dismissed.
27:19Madeline has been injured and is now in hospital.
27:24Madeline is Noor's alias.
27:29This message is coded.
27:32Noor has been compromised.
27:35Or captured.
27:37Is that possible?
27:40The intel comes from a woman called Sonia, claiming to be an informant.
27:45But we don't have any informants on our books called Sonia.
27:56So, who is Sonia?
28:00They didn't know who she was.
28:02Was this a joke?
28:03Was it something to confuse them?
28:05And was this even a Gestapo ruse?
28:07What was going on?
28:10We can't verify who Sonia is.
28:15The message can't be trusted.
28:24I think for now, Vera, we have to ignore it.
28:29More rumours.
28:32They push forward with their plan for Noor to salvage the Prosper Circuit.
28:47Sir, a message just received for call sign nurse.
28:51Nurse?
28:54That's Noor's wireless call sign.
29:01Previous safe house was unsafe.
29:04She's moved to another.
29:08But she is up and running again.
29:12Clever girl, you're Noor.
29:15It seems that despite Sonia's warning, Noor outwitted the Gestapo and is safe.
29:24Sir, there's something you should know.
29:27Noor's fist seems off.
29:33Each wireless operator had what was known as a fist.
29:37It was their way of using the Morse key to type Morse code.
29:41It could be as simple as how fast they tapped or the gaps they left in between the dots and
29:46the dashes
29:47or just something that was very unique about it.
29:50And the person working as their opposite back in headquarters would be able to recognise the fist.
29:57And it's a very reliable way of recognising which agent is using the machine.
30:04And Noor's fist had become unusual.
30:08What are you saying?
30:10Someone else might have sent the message.
30:14So how can we be certain Nurse is really Noor?
30:22Send a reply.
30:24Ask questions only Noor would know the answers to.
30:28These would be to do with her family or childhood or something very personal that only the two of them
30:34would have known.
30:35If these came unanswered or they were vague, she would know that Noor had been captured.
30:41Excellent thinking.
30:43Draft a list of questions, Miss Adkins.
30:45Then send the message.
30:47Sir, the questions are sent.
30:50It's an anxious wait.
31:01With questions over Noor's identity still hanging in the air, work at F Section ploughs ahead.
31:09Buckmaster begins making plans for D-Day.
31:12D-Day is approaching, but nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen.
31:18It's a closely guarded secret.
31:21But Buckmaster has plans for Vera.
31:23He wants her to set up a station, a kind of forward unit, within France after the landings.
31:31But he has a problem.
31:34Vera Atkins isn't British.
31:38She's actually Romanian.
31:40Only he and Vera know this within F Section.
31:44Romania was fighting on the side of Nazi Germany during the war.
31:49Technically, she was an enemy alien.
31:53But with D-Day looming, this has to change.
32:01Vera applies for British nationality.
32:05And is interviewed by the Home Office.
32:09You'll find a letter of recommendation from my commanding officer.
32:19Bath.
32:20Yes.
32:21See.
32:23Buckmaster writes a letter to the Home Office.
32:25He very much backs her application and says that without the British citizenship, it's going to be very difficult for
32:33Vera to be able to go to the continent and operate as a representative of Britain if she, in fact,
32:41still has a Romanian passport.
32:43Without British papers, it would be impossible for Vera to work freely in liberated France.
32:51There is something else.
32:54My Romanian nationality.
32:57We were hoping there was some way to complete my application without it being mentioned.
33:05I'm sure you understand what with the work I do for the war effort, how sensitive it might be.
33:14It is essential that the people I meet, the people that I work with, never learn that I am Romanian.
33:22I mean, this is about national security itself.
33:26It's a persuasive argument.
33:29Vera is given British nationality without her Romanian roots coming to light.
33:45With Vera now a British citizen, her secret work at F-Section can continue.
33:51Sir, in seconds, reply from nurse.
33:56No.
33:59Vera's personal questions to Noor have been answered correctly.
34:05Hearing back from Noor was a huge relief for Vera and indeed for Buckmaster because it meant, first of all,
34:12that she was safe.
34:13Secondly, it meant that there was still radio communication between London and Paris.
34:19And finally, this means that they're going to be able to build up the Prosperous Circuit again.
34:27Soon, requests from nurse flood into F-Section.
34:35New SOE agents are infiltrated to bolster the fledgling circuit.
34:42Buck, another request from nurse.
34:50Authorize the drop.
34:54Arms.
34:57Explosives and cash.
35:00Are sent over in airdrops.
35:08Probably another one.
35:10Just probably a little bit.
35:11Go for it.
35:13Yes.
35:20What's this?
35:22A draft.
35:24Of Noor's citation.
35:27Citation?
35:30Noor's work is exemplary.
35:33Buckmaster is so impressed by her and her courage and bravery having stood alone in Paris,
35:38that in February 1944, he actually recommends her for the George Medal.
35:44Because of Noor, the Prosperous Circuit has been reinforced and reconstructed and is in perfect order.
35:54It is unique in the annals of this organization for a circuit to be so completely disintegrated and yet to
36:02be rebuilt.
36:07Because, regardless of personal danger, this young woman remained on her post, at times alone and always under threat of
36:17arrest.
36:19There.
36:22Sir.
36:23She's earned it.
36:25For Buckmaster, the faith placed in Noor meant that F-Section had a circuit in Paris again.
36:33crucial for their plans for D-Day.
36:46D-Day preparations kick into overdrive.
36:51The date is still a closely guarded secret, but all signs point to the invasion going
36:57ahead in the first half of 1944.
37:03Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives the SOE a direct order, and that is to prioritise
37:09arming the French resistance.
37:12F-Section's central role will be to equip and coordinate the French resistance fighters
37:18on the ground.
37:21Their mission is to attack and slow down German reinforcements heading to the Allied landing
37:28zones.
37:39Vira, shut the door.
37:48Up.
37:55A new directive.
37:58The head of SOE, Major General Colin Gubbins, makes it painfully clear just how important
38:06F-Section is to the D-Day plans.
38:11Strategically, France is overwhelmingly the most important zone in the Western theatre
38:16of war.
38:18F-Section should therefore regard this theatre as one where heavy casualties are inevitable,
38:26but will yield the highest possible dividends.
38:31He means heavy casualties for our agents.
38:38Therefore, increase SOE aid to the field to the maximum possible peak and maintain until D-Day.
38:49Increase SOE aid, supply drops, cash, weapons, explosives.
38:56And increase the supply of agents.
39:03Send even more agents to strengthen the circuits for D-Day.
39:12And expect heavy casualties.
39:25F-Section's most important role is going to be in the weeks and days before D-Day.
39:32In spite of the human toll, the huge casualties which Gubbins has warned them about, Vera and
39:40Buckmaster are still recruiting agents because they need to send them in to France.
39:46It's absolutely vital.
39:47They have to succeed.
39:50Key to this is infiltrating the agents undetected behind enemy lines.
39:58The man responsible for this is F-Section's air movement officer, Henri Derricourt.
40:09Since Boddington's mission to France, the allegations of treachery against Derricourt hadn't subsided.
40:17In fact, they'd intensified.
40:22In February 1944, Buckmaster is forced to recall Derricourt from France to London to clear up
40:30the matter once and for all.
40:33Sir.
40:35That'll be all.
40:38Henri Derricourt.
40:40Buck.
40:41Oh!
40:42How lovely to see you.
40:44Likewise.
40:45I see Boddington's already given you the tour.
40:47Well, he's an excellent guide.
40:49You said something about drinks tonight, Boddington, at the Savoy.
40:53It's a nice establishment.
40:55You better behave yourself.
40:59Derricourt was quite well known to the SOE by the time he actually joined them.
41:04He came from France fleeing Nazis.
41:07He's Boddington's old friend.
41:09And in those days, places like the SOE were run very much along the lines of, you know,
41:16Old Boys Network.
41:16And despite the fact that Derricourt is actually being investigated for possibly being a double
41:24agent, he's put up in the Savoy Hotel.
41:27He's treated well by Buckmaster and Boddington.
41:32But...
41:32Bucks.
41:33The allegations against Derricourt were true.
41:37What would that mean for F-Section?
41:39All of our planning?
41:41Vera, the reports lack evidence.
41:43There's no way they'll be proven.
41:45I know a chap I can trust when I see one.
41:49But Buckmaster has plenty to worry about.
41:53The danger with Derricourt possibly being a double agent was that he was bringing the
41:59agents both to France and from France.
42:02And the fear was that all of the people he'd come in contact with would also have been compromised.
42:09Every single agent would have been blown.
42:13This would derail all of F-Section's D-Day planning.
42:19Don't worry, Derricourt.
42:22We'll clear this whole sorry business up.
42:25Take it as an SOE objective to clear your name.
42:28Thanks, sir.
42:29And they did.
42:31By September 1944, MI5's investigation of Derricourt winds up and he's told he's free to go.
42:54With D-Day on the near horizon, Vera is busier than ever overseeing the deployment of women's spies.
43:04She needs the SOE's circuits as strong as possible for F-Section's ultimate aim,
43:12stopping the Nazis from reaching the Allied landing zones.
43:16In March, she sends six female agents into enemy territory.
43:22That's more than any point in the war so far.
43:25First to fly is Yvonne Bayston.
43:29The parachute drop is scheduled for this evening.
43:32The drop zone is the south of France, near Toulouse.
43:37From here, you are to make your way across country to Dole,
43:40where you are to make contact with the Scholar circuit.
43:44This will be your circuit.
43:46You've been assigned to them as a wireless operator.
44:00Ready?
44:02Ready, Ms. Atkins.
44:03With any incriminating items gone, she's cleared for takeoff.
44:11And the infiltration of agents doesn't stop.
44:17Reports are that the weather has cleared over central France.
44:20Tonight, you are to be infiltrated by parachute near the Limassan region.
44:32From the drop zone, you are to meet up with the salesman's circuit
44:36and begin making contacts with the resistance.
44:41But Violet's mission has an added danger.
44:44An SS panzer division is located there,
44:48and it's up to Violet as courier to try and help the resistance
44:52stop those panzer tanks from reaching the Allied landing sites.
45:02How am I looking?
45:04Good.
45:08You're clean.
45:10Are you ready?
45:18The Nazis won't know what hit them.
45:22Very good.
45:26With D-Day imminent, the circuits are ready for action.
45:32In France, the SOE, their agents and the French resistance
45:37go into overdrive.
45:38They are frantic trying to work as fast as they possibly can
45:42because they just have to slow the Nazi defenses down.
45:47D-Day messages, activating sabotage attacks
45:51led by the circuits, could start at any time.
45:57In Dahl, the scholar circuit is a hive of activity
46:01and Yvonne is right at the center of it.
46:04She's coordinating with French resistance fighters.
46:07She is actually physically making detonators herself.
46:11She is choosing the targets that they are going to attack together.
46:14She must have been so stressed out but also excited
46:19because this is the moment that she has been working towards.
46:22This is why everybody has been risking their lives.
46:24They've got to make D-Day work.
46:33On the 5th of June, 1944,
46:37SOE broadcast hundreds of action messages
46:41in code over radio stations.
46:46That day, messages from the circuits
46:49come flooding back into F section.
46:55Sabotage operations have started.
47:16D-Day has come.
47:23D-Day Model
47:24D-N gráficции
48:08Transcription by CastingWords
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