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Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE (20 January 1922 – 28 October 2017), later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately forty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who served in France. The objective of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany.
From the age of 22, Yvonne Baseden was an agent in Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) and helped co-ordinate French Resistance fighters. Following one of the largest daylight airdrops...
Yvonne Baseden, née le 20 janvier 1922 dans le 15 e arrondissement de Paris et morte le 28 octobre 2017, est une espionne française. Elle fut une agente secrète, officier du Special Operations Executive, le service secret britannique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Learn about the life and achievements of Yvonne Baseden, one of the youngest female agents to parachute into France during the Second World War and a survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Find out how she became a wireless operator for the Scholar network, a code name for the SOE, and how she coped with the war's brutality and the Gestapo's interrogation.
Flight Officer Yvonne BASEDEN MBE (Military), Croix de Guerre avec Palme. WAAF, WTS/FANY, SOE. Born in Paris of a British father and French mother; joined WAAF March 1941, commissioned and served in Intelligence Branch. Seconded to SOE (F Section), May 1943. Parachuted into France as radio operator for Scholar Circuit, 19 March 1944: based ...
Yvonne Baseden. The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was instructed to look out for exceptional women who might be useful to SOE, and indeed it identified a number of women who became SOE agents. Among them was 21-year-old Yvonne Baseden, who had joined the WAAF at the outbreak of the war (after seeking her father’s permission).
8 de nov. de 2017 · Le 18 juin 1940, à 19 ans, Yvonne Baseden entend l'appel du général de Gaulle et demande à s'engager dans la France libre, ce qui lui sera refusé au motif que son père est britannique. Elle ...
