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"My comrades, who did far more and suffered more profoundly than I, are not here to speak. Because of this, I speak for them."

#OnThisDay, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance.

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Odette Samsom with her three daughters before the war. She is a white woman with dark hair and is sat in a garden chair, with the three girls around her.
photo of Odette Samson in her First Aid Nursing Yeomanry uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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