Timeline of SOE French Section

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a clandestine organization of the United Kingdom during World War II.

The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers.

The Valençay SOE Memorial lists 91 men and 13 women agents who were killed, executed, or died in concentration camps during the war.

SOE agents in France were organized into networks which usually consisted of an organiser (the leader), a courier, and a wireless operator.

A task of agents was identifying suitable landing sites, usually farm fields, for parachuters, supplies, and aircraft SOE had two sections dealing with France.