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Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. #MBE #legiondhonneur #botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions. @histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women
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Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent.
#MBE #legiondhonneur
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned.
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair.
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women