#wireless operator

[lyselkatz]

Heroines: Violet Szabo / Pearl Witherington / Noor Inayat Khan 🌹 Fangirling over Agent Carter, I’ve been reading a lot the past few years about the S.O.E.’s French Section female agents and I wanted to draw a little homage (Jan. 2018).

My personal library’s ever growing WW2/Resistance/SOE section and some pictures from various pilgrimage trips under the cut

SOE Memorial in Valencay, France. The first ribbon poppies I made were to be left there. More pictures on my IG.

SOE monument, Albert Embankment, London. More pictures on my IG.

Noor Inayat Kahn bust, Gordon square, London. More pictures on my IG.

Imperial war museum, London More pictures on my IG there and there.

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[hjmarseille]

Yvonne Cormeau, an SOE wireless operator who parachuted into occupied France in 1943.

Photo and caption featured in Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War by Roderick Bailey

[franciswhetsel]

been playing around with combining different textures in my sketches. we'll see how the pixel texture translates to being squashed for tumblr.

[morelly]

[alanmalcherhistorian]

National Army Museum London: SOE in France

National Army Museum London: SOE in France

Part of the National Army Museum Virtual VE Day 75 Festival.

Special Operations Executive: Tools of the Trade

Behind enemy lines: description based on a true account

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[philmaguire]

Wireless Operator @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Starring Thomas Dennis (War Horse, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime), Wireless Operator follows a Lancaster Bomber crew's final mission. I've composed the soundtrack for the show. 12.40pm, 31st July - 26th August at Pleasance Below (Venue 33), Edinburgh.

[jamespaulmoody]

This postcard was sent by Titanic’s chief wireless operator, Jack Phillips, on April 6, 1912. It sold for £15,000 at Henry Aldridge & Son’s auction, making it one of the world’s most expensive postcards. The postcard is addressed to Miss Elsie Phillips, one of Jack’s older sisters. 

In full it reads: “Thanks very much for your letter. Having glorious weather, went to Cowes yesterday. Will write later before we sail. Love all, Jack.” Phillips has added in the address panel, “Miss Elsie Phillips, 11 Farncombe St., Godalming.

[moonkestrel-draws]

Y4 #042

The answer to the universe, all held inside a Lancaster ;)