Glad to see a mention of the SOE. Women agents not already in the Armed Forces joined the FANY's (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) that dated from WW1 to give them some Service status under the Geneva Convention (duly disregarded by the enemy). It still exists as an auxiliary support organisation, and in tribute to its incredibly brave forebears of WWII it is represented in the Remembrance Sunday March Past at the Cenotaph in their distinctive outfits. Always towards the rear, so that as often as not the massed bands are faded out (usually playing the march The Liberators appropriately from their repertoire) so that the Beeb can cut to the drone above and Dimbleby can intone his windup. The loneliness and immense courage of their radio operators, always on the move, always having to be one step ahead of those seeking them, often betrayed, was rarely matched in my estimation.