Very early #OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French resistance.

She was also the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.

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