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Nearne had opposed the recruitment of her younger sister, Eileen, as an SOE agent, declaring her to be too young and immature. Nevertheless, on the night of 2/3 March 1944, Eileen arrived in France as an SOE agent. SOE headquarters ordered
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Jacqueline Nearne's sister Eileen survived imprisonment in a German prison camp, but she had severe psychological and physical problems when she returned to
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airplane landed at a clandestine airfield where she was present. Chalked onto the fuselage of the airplane was the message, "Jacqueline MUST come." She obeyed the order. Traveling with her to
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Nearne remained in France for more than 14 months without a break, an unusually long time for an SOE agent to remain uncaptured in France. Both
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overruled the trainers, accepted Nearne as an agent and later said she was "one of the best we have had." Nearne's sister Eileen would also join the SOE and serve in France as a wireless operator. Her brother
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and French police checked her documents twice. She learned from that not to stay overnight in hotels as their occupants were monitored closely by the French police and the
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two members of the same family should not be agents at the same time. Despite the exhaustion of being an agent for so long, Nearne resisted leaving, but on 9 April 1944, a
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