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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.
16:43They!
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, she's plucky, she's physically very tough.
18:03Pretty 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.
18:21But 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.
18:40Yes, 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.
19:04More 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.
19:58in 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
20:07in German hands.
20:10Well, are you sure?
20:11One hundred percent.
20:13Aghazarian and I flipped a coin to see you should go.
20:16It fell to him, so he went.
20:18I waited in the safe house,
20:19but he didn't return.
20:21If I had gone, I'd now be sat
20:23in a Gestapo torture chamber.
20:27Poor Aghazarian.
20:36Send a message to F-Section.
20:38Arrange a Lysander pickup immediately.
20:41I need to get back to London.
20:45Sir,
20:47were you followed?
20:55Send a message.
20:57We'll find you in your safe house.
21:00They can't trust anyone,
21:04nor has to move.
21:14Meanwhile,
21:15Boddington returns to London.
21:29Buck, here's my report.
21:34Prosper is destroyed.
21:37Destroyed?
21:38Entirely?
21:40It's impossible to know
21:41which agents are active,
21:43which agents are in Gestapo custody,
21:45and who can be trusted.
21:48The Gestapo are raiding weapons depots,
21:51making arrests.
21:53Prosper as a circuit is a corpse.
21:57It's worse than they could have imagined.
22:00The most important
22:01SOE circuit operating in France
22:03has been absolutely destroyed.
22:06The most important members of it
22:08are 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
22:17who were in any way connected
22:18with the circuit
22:19are in grave, grave danger.
22:22There is something else.
22:25One of our agents
22:26has been contacted
22:27by German military intelligence
22:30about Deracour.
22:33Deracour?
22:35This
22:35Adver officer
22:38claims that Deracour
22:39is letting the Gestapo
22:40copy all our agents'
22:42unencoded letters
22:43before sending them back to London.
22:46Preposterous.
22:47I know.
22:50But this agent of ours
22:51will be sending this report in.
22:54Officially.
22:56German military intelligence
22:58hated the Gestapo
22:59and are trying to get us
23:01to close down the network.
23:03Then the Gestapo
23:04won'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
23:18to Buckmaster and Vera
23:20that the Prosper circuit
23:21is blown.
23:24One hundred and sixty-seven agents
23:26are rounded up,
23:28arrested,
23:29many of them tortured,
23:30and some of them killed
23:32by the Gestapo.
23:34The Prosper circuit
23:36was the most important
23:37in France.
23:39And it's a disaster
23:41for F section
23:42that it's been blown.
23:44It was crucial
23:45to the planning for D-Day
23:48because it was a centre
23:49of the resistance.
23:52Try and get as many agents
23:54back to London as possible.
23:55of the Force.
24:13But one agent
24:14who doesn't return
24:15is Noor.
24:20buck master writes to noor and says come back it's very dangerous we'll organize a flight for
24:26you and get you out but noor says she's the last link left she's the last radio operator standing
24:34between paris and england i have to be here if i've gone there's no radio operator left
24:41she feels she can rebuild this circuit and buck master receives this message and he asked her to
24:47lie low and be very careful despite the danger buck master realizes just how vital she is and keeps
25:03her in her post she becomes one of f section's most important agents as she is their one remaining
25:17radio operator in paris and a letter she sends to vera gives hope that all might not be lost after
25:37all dear miss atkins excuse pencil
25:45your bird has brought me luck i remember you so often you cheered me up so sweetly before i left
25:54lots of things have happened and i haven't been able to settle down properly
26:00still my contacts are regular and i'm awfully happy
26:05lots of love yours nor
26:19your bird has brought me luck
26:29noor is clearly operating under great stress she's meant to be sending in messages regularly but
26:35most of the wireless messages she's sending are outside the scheduled times and this shows that
26:40she's having to move around and having to adapt a lot and 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 zabo and yvonne baston are progressing well very good both their training
27:08reports show an increasing aptitude for sir miss atkins an urgent message from the signals room
27:19madeline has been injured and is now in hospital madeline is nor's alias
27:28this message is coded
27:32nor has been compromised
27:35or captured is that possible
27:40intel comes from a woman called sonia claiming to be an informant
27:45but we don't have any informants on our books called sonia
27:55so who is sonia
27:59they didn't know who she was was this a joke was it something to confuse them was this even a
28:06gestapo ruse what was going on
28:10we can't verify who sonia is
28:24i think for now vera we have to ignore it
28:28more rumors
28:32they push forward with their plan for nor to salvage the prosper circuit
28:47sir a message just received for call sign nurse
28:51nurse
28:53that's nor's wireless call sign
29:01previous safe house was unsafe
29:03she's moved to another
29:08but she is up and running again
29:12clever girl you're nor
29:15it seems that despite sonia's warning nor outwitted the gestapo and is safe
29:25sir there's something you should know nor's fist seems off
29:33each wireless operator had what was known as a fist it was their way of using the morse key
29:39to type morse code it could be as simple as how fast they tapped or the gaps they left in
29:45between the dots and the dashes or just something that was very unique about it and the person
29:51working as their opposite back in headquarters would be able to recognize the fist and it's a
29:58very reliable way of recognizing which agent is using the machine
30:04and nor's fist had become unusual
30:08what are you saying someone else might have sent the message
30:14so how can we be certain nurse is really nor
30:22send a reply ask questions only nor would know the answers to
30:29these would be to do with her family or childhood or something very personal that only the two
30:34of them would have known if these came unanswered or they were vague she would know that nor had
30:39been captured excellent thinking draft a list of questions miss adkins then send the message
30:47so the questions are sent it's an anxious wait
31:01with questions over nor's identity still hanging in the air work at f section plows ahead buckmaster begins making plans
31:11for d-day
31:12d-day is approaching but nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen it's a closely guarded secret but
31:21buckmaster has plans for vera he wants her to set up a station a kind of forward unit within france
31:29after the landings but he has a problem
31:34he has a problem
31:35vera atkins isn't british she's actually romanian
31:39only he and vera know this within f section
31:44romania was fighting on the side of nazi germany during the war
31:48technically 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
32:08you'll find a letter of recommendation
32:11from my commanding officer
32:19yes
32:20yes
32:21see
32:23buckmaster writes a letter to the home office he very much backs her application
32:28and says that without the british citizenship it's going to be very difficult for vera
32:34to be able to go to the continent and operate as a representative of britain
32:40if she in fact still 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
33:01without it being mentioned
33:05i'm sure you understand
33:06what with the work i do for the war effort
33:09how sensitive it might be
33:14it is essential that the people i meet
33:17the people that i work with
33:19never learn that i am romanian
33:22this is about national security itself
33:26it's a persuasive argument
33:29vera is given british nationality
33:32without her romanian roots coming to light
33:43send a message to scholar
33:44with vera now a british citizen her secret work at f section can continue
33:50sir
33:52reply from nurse
33:56no
33:59vera's personal questions to nor have been answered correctly
34:04hearing back from nor was a huge relief for vera and indeed for buckmaster
34:10because it meant first of all that 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 prosper circuit again
34:26soon requests from nurse flood into f section
34:35new soe agents are infiltrated to bolster the fledgling circuit
34:42another request from nurse
34:47nurse
34:48thank you
34:48authorize the drop
34:54arms
34:57explosives and cash
35:00are sent over in airdrops
35:20what's this
35:22a draft
35:23of nor's citation
35:25citation
35:29nor's work is exemplary
35:32but muster is so impressed by her and her courage and bravery having stood alone in
35:37paris
35:38that in february 1944 he actually recommends her for the george medal
35:45because of nor
35:46prosper circuit has been reinforced and reconstructed and is in perfect order
35:55it is unique in the annals of this organization for a circuit to be so completely disintegrated
36:01and yet to be rebuilt
36:07because regardless of personal danger this young woman remained on her post at times alone and always under threat of
36:17arrest
36:19her
36:22she's ended
36:25for buckmaster the faith placed in nor meant that f section had a circuit in paris again
36:34crucial for their plans for d-day
36:46d-day
36:47d-day preparations kick into overdrive
36:51the date is still a closely guarded secret
36:54but all signs point to the invasion going ahead in the first half of 1944
37:03prime minister winston churchill gives the soe a direct order and that is to prioritize arming the french resistance
37:12f section's central role will be to equip and coordinate the french resistance fighters on the ground
37:21their mission is to attack and slow down german reinforcements heading to the allied landing zones
37:29d-day
37:39Avera, shut the door.
37:48Up.
37:56A new directive.
37:58The head of SOE, Major General Colin Gubbins,
38:03makes it painfully clear just how important F Section is to the D-Day plans.
38:11Strategically, France is overwhelmingly the most important zone
38:15in the Western theatre of war.
38:18F Section should therefore regard this theatre
38:21as one where heavy casualties are inevitable.
38:25But will yield the highest possible dividends.
38:30He means heavy casualties for our agents.
38:38Therefore, increase SOE aid to the field to the maximum possible peak
38:44and maintain until D-Day.
38:48Increase SOE aid.
38:51Supply drops.
38:52Cash, 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,
39:39Vera and Buckmaster are still recruiting agents
39:42because 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.
39:57The man responsible for this is F Section's air movement officer, Henri Derricourt.
40:08Since Boddington's mission to France,
40:11the allegations of treachery against Derricourt hadn't subsided.
40:17In fact, they'd intensified.
40:22In February 1944,
40:25Buckmaster is forced to recall Derricourt from France to London
40:29to clear up the matter once and for all.
40:34That'll be all. Thank you.
40:38Henri Derricourt.
40:39Buck, how 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
41:02by the time he actually joined them.
41:05He came from France fleeing Nazis.
41:07He's Boddington's old friend.
41:09And in those days, places like the SOE
41:12were run very much along the lines of, you know, old boys' network.
41:17And despite the fact that Derricourt is actually being investigated
41:21for possibly being a double agent,
41:25he's put up in the Savoy Hotel.
41:27He's treated well by Buckmaster and Boddington.
41:31Buck.
41:34The 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.
41:50But Buckmaster has plenty to worry about.
41:53The danger with Derricourt possibly being a double agent
41:57was that he was bringing the agents both to France and from France.
42:02And the fear was that all of the people he'd come in contact with
42:07would 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.
42:28And they did.
42:31By September 1944, MI5's investigation of Derricourt winds up
42:36and he's told he's free to go.
42:54With D-Day on the near horizon,
42:57Vera is busier than ever overseeing the deployment of women's spies.
43:04She needs the SOE's circuits as strong as possible
43:09for 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.
43:21That's more than any point in the war so far.
43:25First to fly is Yvonne Basden.
43:29The parachute drop is scheduled for this evening.
43:32The drop zone is the south of France, near Toulouse.
43:37From here, you're to make your way across country to Dole,
43:40where you're 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, Miss Atkins.
44:04With any incriminating items gone,
44:08she's cleared for take-off.
44:10And the infiltration of agents doesn't stop.
44:16Reports are that the weather has cleared over central France.
44:21Tonight, you are to be infiltrated by parachute
44:24near the Limassan region.
44:32From the drop zone,
44:33you 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
44:50to try and help the resistance
44:52stop those panzer tanks
44:54from 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,
45:28the circuits are ready for action.
45:32In France, the SOE,
45:34their agents,
45:36and the French resistance
45:37go into overdrive.
45:38They're frantic trying to work
45:40as fast as they possibly can
45:42because they just have to slow
45:44the Nazi defences down.
45:47D-Day messages,
45:50activating sabotage attacks
45:51led by the circuits,
45:53could start at any time.
45:57In Dole, 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's choosing the targets
46:12that they are going to attack together.
46:14She must have been so stressed out,
46:17but also excited,
46:19because this is the moment
46:20that she has been working towards.
46:22This is why everybody has been risking their lives.
46:25They'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.
47:23Don't check it out.
47:24Don't check it out.
47:47Joe designated Dr. Wade
47:47D-Day in our time,
47:49he very much required
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