As well as the women in The Real Charlotte Grays and those few who were awarded the rare George Cross, there were hundreds more brave, determined women in the FANY.

Vera Atkins did not serve in France but through her determination we know what happened to many who did not come home. 'The soul of Special Operations Executive(SOE)', many thought she actually ran the organisation.

Christine Granville, an aristocratic, Polish Jew, she set up an escape network in Hungary and escaped twice herself before volunteering for service behind the lines in France.

Eileen Nearne joined SOE with her sister and landed in France in 1944 aged 20. She was captured, tortured and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, but survived.

Virginia Hall joined SOE because the American State Department sacked her when she had a leg amputated. The 'lady with the limp' worked in Lyons, was then recruited by the US equivalent of SOE and eventually worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.