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![]() ![]() After mailing in a few prints, she was recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which had been established to conduct missions of intelligence, espionage and sabotage throughout Western Europe, according to Michael Barnhart, a history professor at Stony Brook University who specializes in WWII.Īt first, Sansom resisted the recruitment efforts. The couple moved to London, where they were raising three daughters when war once again engulfed Europe. In 1941, Odette heard that the British war office was looking for photographs of the French coastline. Odette married Englishman Roy Sansom, who worked in the hotel industry, in 1931. ![]() Odette Sansom, British spy, taunting her German captors during WWII You will have to make up your mind on which count I am to be executed because I can only die once! ![]()
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