Ginette Jullian
French spy (1917-1962)
Ginette Marie Hélène Jullian (8 December 1917, Montpellier, France – 4 August 1962, Tahiti), code named Adele, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
Jullian was a wireless operator for the Permit network (or circuit) of SOE in France in 1944.
Life
Jullian lived in Algeria as a child, married at age sixteen, and was later divorced. In 1940, after the German invasion, she fled France for England. In 1943, she failed a training course to be a pilot with the British Air Transport Auxiliary, but later joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and trained for the Special Operations Executive, learning parachuting, security, and wireless operation. On 7 June 1944, the day after D-day, she parachuted into France near the village of Saint-Viâtre, Loir-et-Cher, with her colleague Gérard Dedieu. They arrived with the SOE networks in chaos. Jullian's wireless was confiscated by a French Resistance leader and many members of the resistance had been captured by the Germans or were in hiding. In late June, Dedieu and Jullian finally found a safe house in Chartres, obtained a wireless set and began operations, arranging for 450 CLE Canisters of arms and supplies to be air-dropped to the resistance fighters.
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