#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

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“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.

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Nice write-up from a former tour guide aboard the Queen Mary recounting some experiences of black soldiers on her during World War II.

https://captainstableblog.com/day-of-final-victory-black-soldiers-aboard-the-queen-mary/

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#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She had run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.

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