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Odette Sansom
A Marriage of Life or Death:
This housewife's determination and French patriotism qualified her for SOE service. Assigned as Captain Peter Churchill's radio operator, the two were betrayed, arrested and tortured -- Sansom handicapped for life when her toenails were pulled. Her wits still about her, Sansom convinced the Gestapo she and Churchill were married and related to Winston Churchill. German agents spared their lives and sent them to concentration camps.
Both survived, and married in 1947. |