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Knitting with a code

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    brenda
    wrote on 9 Apr 2020, 00:06 last edited by
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    https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25020&fbclid=IwAR1I2PGNdeFSa7nxQy-xSc7J1N-roDEj-rKFABI6IAzpGbWM4UvtOtFfxBU

    In May 1944, a 23-year-old British secret agent named Phyllis Latour Doyle parachuted into occupied Normandy to gather intelligence on Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. As an agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), Doyle – who is celebrating her 99th birthday this week – secretly relayed 135 coded messages to the British military before France's liberation in August. She took advantage of the fact that the Nazi occupiers and their French collaborators were generally less suspicious of women, using the knitting she carried as a way to hide her codes. For seventy years, Doyle's contributions to the war effort were largely unheralded, but she was finally given her due in 2014 when she was awarded France's highest honor, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

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    LOL, she hid her secrets in her knitting. God bless her and happy birthday!

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      mark
      wrote on 9 Apr 2020, 00:21 last edited by
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      😎

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 9 Apr 2020, 01:02 last edited by
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        She ‘stuck to her knitting’.

        "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
        -Cormac McCarthy

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          9 Apr 2020, 01:02

          She ‘stuck to her knitting’.

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          George K
          wrote on 9 Apr 2020, 01:07 last edited by
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          @jon-nyc said in Knitting with a code:

          She ‘stuck to her knitting’.

          Did she make sammiches?

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            Catseye3
            wrote on 9 Apr 2020, 01:25 last edited by
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            All honors to you, Ms. Doyle. 🍰

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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              taiwan_girl
              wrote on 10 Apr 2020, 01:12 last edited by
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              Very cool story!!!

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                brenda
                wrote on 10 Apr 2020, 03:23 last edited by brenda 4 Oct 2020, 03:23
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                The link gives more information about her work as a spy, which was exceedingly dangerous. It's the kind of thing that would make an outstanding movie.

                After the war, she married and raised four children. It wasn't until they were older that she told them of her wartime activities. Imagine finding out that mom was a spy during the war, sometimes living in the woods and foraging to survive.

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                  jon-nyc
                  wrote on 10 Apr 2020, 11:32 last edited by
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                  It’s a great story.

                  "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                  -Cormac McCarthy

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                    Doctor Phibes
                    wrote on 10 Apr 2020, 12:34 last edited by
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                    I love this.

                    I was only joking

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