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Eileen Nearne's Cover Story

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Eileen Nearne joined the Special Operations Executive in Britain as a radio operator. She served in occupied France as a radio operator under the codename “Rose”. In occupied France, Eileen was dropped by parachute to relay messages from the French resistance and to arrange weapons drops. She talked her way out of trouble several times, but was eventually arrested by the Nazis. She was tortured and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. Yet Nearne stuck to her cover story. She was transferred to a labor camp and escaped during yet again from another transfer. Once again, Nearne talked her way out of trouble when confronted by the Gestapo and hid in a church until the area was liberated by the Americans. After the war, Nearne was awarded

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