By Paul Donnelley The little-known story of a daring British teenager who risked her life to be a spy in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War has come to light. Plucky Sonya Butt - known as Agent Blanche – was just 19 when she was parachuted into northern France to act as a go-between for Allied troops and the French Resistance ahead of D-Day. During her time with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) she met and married Guy D’Artois, a fellow spy, and the pair went on to wreak havoc on the Germans. The spy in retirement: Sonya Butt was just 19 when she was dropped into German-occupied France and began spying for the Allies against the Axis powers. Here she is enjoying her life in Canada
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Sonya Butt aka Agent Blanche parachuted into France when she was 19
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An expert in explosives, she sabotaged bridges for French Resistance
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Narrowly escaped punishment as a collaborator
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Mentioned in Dispatches, she became a housewife and mother after war
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The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker (Published by Amberley at £16.99).
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She used her beauty to get close to the @placeholder soldiers but it almost blew her cover when one evening while in a café with an officer she dropped her bag carrying her revolver.