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unusual facts about SOE F Section networks


Yvonne Cormeau

Her role was to work as courier and wireless operator on the Wheelwright Circuit in Gascony.


Anne-Marie Walters

In the company of a fellow agent, Claude Arnault (Néron), she was successfully dropped into the Armagnac area in SW France on the night of 3/4 January 1944, to join George Starr’s WHEELWRIGHT circuit.

George Reginald Starr

Based in Castelnau-sur-l'Auvignon, posing as a retired Belgian mining engineer who had made a fortune in the Congo, he successfully organised a French Resistance network in the southwest corner of France, between Toulouse, Bordeaux and the Pyrenees, designated by the SOE as the 'Wheelwright Sector'.

Harry Rée

In April 1943 he was parachuted into France and joined the Acrobat Network around Montbéliard.


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