#OnThisDay, 25 Sept 1942, Lise de Baissac and Andrée Borrel parachute into occupied France to become Special Operations Executive agents. They are the first women to parachute in.

Lise survives the war, dying in 2004. Andrée is captured in 1943, and killed at Natzweiler concentration camp in 1944.

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