starrynight
Senior Registered
I have so many memories from this life I'm sure I could write a book. I haven't thought it fair to go too much into it as it involves so many people I know who would be completly unaware, also many of these people will probably have living relatives.
I hadn't heard about the Special Operation Executive until I started doing research, though I had known about people parachuting into France. This side of the war had always fascinated me. When I first got the dreams I told myself to write it off as overactive imagination but the more I read the more I got the dreams.
Basically to give you the background it was a small British unit that recruited French speaking pople to be flown into France & work with the reistance there. Again this fooled me because being terrified of heights I couldn't imagine parachuting but most workers were actually flown by lysander & landed on the ground. Once in France they should be met by the resistance there & were then reliant on them. Apart from the radio operators there was no communication from England. The average time in the field for a radio operator to survive was around 3 months.
At first only men were recruited. Many of the men had been turned down by the other forces, often because of age were suitable. From 1943 women were recruited. Most were couriers, afew were radio operators. I was a radio operator, this would suit my personality to get on with a job in hand.
Of 39 women, 12 were captured & killed, 2 cpatured & managed to escape, 1 captured & suvived, 1 captured & died of typhoid after being liberated.
I hadn't heard about the Special Operation Executive until I started doing research, though I had known about people parachuting into France. This side of the war had always fascinated me. When I first got the dreams I told myself to write it off as overactive imagination but the more I read the more I got the dreams.
Basically to give you the background it was a small British unit that recruited French speaking pople to be flown into France & work with the reistance there. Again this fooled me because being terrified of heights I couldn't imagine parachuting but most workers were actually flown by lysander & landed on the ground. Once in France they should be met by the resistance there & were then reliant on them. Apart from the radio operators there was no communication from England. The average time in the field for a radio operator to survive was around 3 months.
At first only men were recruited. Many of the men had been turned down by the other forces, often because of age were suitable. From 1943 women were recruited. Most were couriers, afew were radio operators. I was a radio operator, this would suit my personality to get on with a job in hand.
Of 39 women, 12 were captured & killed, 2 cpatured & managed to escape, 1 captured & suvived, 1 captured & died of typhoid after being liberated.