Writing ten years after D-Day, Sonia D’Artois (Sonya Esmée Florence Butt, b. 1924) recalled her experiences as a spy and saboteur in Nazi-occupied France:
“…I began my mission in wartime France as a British secret agent. Colonel Maurice Buckmaster had told me what my assignment was:”
“You will parachute into France with a wireless operator and a demolition specialist. The drop will be 40 miles from Le Mans, where Rommel’s army is concentrated…”
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