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Timeline of events in the history of Section F of the Special Operations Executive. See also SOE F Section networks.

1 May 1941

May 5
Georges Bégué was the first SOE agent dropped in France. He set up radio communications and met agents who followed.

2 July 1941

July 1
Brian Stonehouse parachuted into occupied France near the city of Tours in the Loire Valley.

3 October 1941

October 24
Brian Stonehouse and Blanche Charlet were arrested by Milice in Chateau Hurlevent near Lyons.

4 December 1941

December
Brian Stonehouse was transferred to Fresnes prison in Paris

5 January 1942

January
Peter Churchill was landed by submarine at Miramar in France to evaluate the Carte resistance group.

6 May 1942

May
William Grover-WilliamsCharles Frederick William Grover-Williams born January 16, 1903 died March 18, 1945, was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. Born of an English father and a French mother in the Montrouge suburb of Paris, France, William Grover-Williams grew up was parachuted into France.

7 August 1942

August
John Starr arrived by parachute in a field near Valence in France on his first mission.
August
Peter Churchill went to Montpellier in France to organize the Spindle network.

8 September 1942

September 24
Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac arrived by parachute at a field near Mer , not far from the Loire River

9 November 1942

November
Gilbert Norman arrived in France to join the Prosper Network.
November
George Starr and Odette Sansom arrived by boat near Cannes on the Mediterranean coast of France. The return voyage carried John Starr out of France following his uneventful first mission, taking with him reports collected by Peter Churchill.


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