[1] On the night of 19/20 September 1941 Georges Duboudin "Alain" landed by boat at Barcarès, near Perpignan,[2] and went to Lyon to train to organise the SPRUCE network to supervise sabotage teams.
[3] In April 1942 Virginia Hall assigned him radio operator Edward Zeff, who had arrived in the French Riviera by submarine with Victor Gerson, an SOE agent on a special mission to organise the VIC Escape Line, delivered by Peter Churchill in Operation DELAY II.
Bob Sheppard, who arrived on the same flight as an instructor, fell on a roof near the police station and was arrested.
Jean Mingat, in charge of receiving Bob Sheppard, was also arrested and sentenced to 10 months in prison.
[citation needed] In 1965 his widow filed a claim for Nazi persecution under the Anglo-German Compensation Agreement.