In Response to a Plea
In the spring of 1942, when Odette and her daughters were living in England, the British Royal Navy broadcast on the radio a plea for anyone with postcards or family photographs of the coast of France to send them in to help with the war effort. Hearing the broadcast, and knowing that she had several photos in her possession, she decided to send them in.
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She thought she would be doing her part. So she wrote in an attached letter that the photographs were taken around Boulogne, France. But she didn’t send the photos to the Admiral Department. Instead, she accidentally mailed them to the War Office. And that’s how Odette Sansom was brought to the attention of Colonel Maurice Buckmaster’s Special Operations Executive.