Died 4 August 1962, Mahina, French Polynesia | ||
Ginette Marie Hélène Jullian (8 December 1917, Montpellier - 4 August 1962) was a French spy during the Second World War.
Life
She 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. She was in France during the Allied advances, and returned to Britain on 22 September 1944.
She is remembered on the Tempsford Memorial in Tempsford, Bedfordshire, England, which was unveiled in 2013 and commemorates the women who flew into occupied Europe from the nearby RAF Tempsford.
She is reported to have died in a scuba-diving accident in Tahiti in 1962.