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The Allied Spies Who Paved the Way for D-Day

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Secret agents—women and men—died making it possible for the Allies to storm through France. It's time to remember them.

PARIS—There was a moment in the dark of night, as she sat down in the blacked-out, flat-black American B-24 flying very low over Normandy, when 22-year-old Second Lieutenant Évelyne Clopet must have felt what one of her colleagues on an earlier mission called “that cowardly sense of relief replacing the...

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