SOE RF Section facts for kids

The SOE was a secret British organization during World War II. It was created in 1940 to help resistance groups in countries occupied by the Germans. One part of the SOE was called F Section, which worked in France. Later, another section, RF Section, was formed in early 1941.

The RF Section worked closely with the BCRA, which was the intelligence service of General de Gaulle's Free French forces. Together, they helped the French Resistance by providing important supplies like planes, radios, weapons, and training. Many brave men and women, both French civilians and foreign supporters, joined these secret missions to fight for France.

Secret Missions in World War II

What Was the SOE RF Section?

The RF Section of the Special Operations Executive was a secret group that helped the French Resistance during World War II. They worked very closely with the BCRA, which was the Free French intelligence service. The RF Section provided important supplies like flights, radios, weapons, and training. The BCRA provided the brave people, known as agents, who carried out these dangerous missions in France.

It was sometimes hard to tell the difference between operations run by F-Section and RF Section because they often shared resources and even agents. The lists below show many joint operations between RF-Section and BCRA.

Brave Agents and Their Missions

Many agents risked their lives to help the Resistance. Here are some of their stories, organized by year.

Missions in 1941

• TORTURE: Henri Labit and Jean-Louis Cartigny parachuted into France on July 5, 1941. Their mission was to check out a German airbase. They were betrayed. Cartigny was arrested and later shot. Labit escaped and returned to London.
• TROMBONE CIP: Robert Lencement dropped into France on August 29. He was supposed to create three secret groups for sabotage, propaganda, and intelligence. He was arrested on December 31, 1941, but was later released. He was arrested again in 1943 and sent to Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora camps, but survived.
• DASTARD: Raymond Laverdet and André Allainmat parachuted in on September 7, 1941. They connected with a large resistance group, but the Gestapo found them. Allainmat was arrested and sent to Mauthausen camp, but was freed in 1945.
• FABULOUS: Jacques Furet joined Henri Labit on September 10, 1941. Furet was arrested by French police and handed over to the Germans. He was sent to Buchenwald but returned in April 1945.
• BARTER-1: Roger Donnadieu and Michel-Etienne Laurent dropped in on September 10. Their goal was to scout an airfield. Their radio was damaged, and Laurent was later shot by the Gestapo.
• MAINMAST-B: Jean Forman and René Periou dropped in on October 13. They were to contact resistance groups. Forman returned to the UK. Periou was arrested, escaped, and then re-arrested. He was sent to Struthof-Natzweiler and Dachau camps, but was freed in 1945.
• OVERCLOUD: This operation involved several trips by boat from Cornwall, England, to France, starting October 14. Joël LeTac and Alain, le Comte de Kergorlay, were key figures.
• OUTCLASS: Yvon Morandat dropped in on November 6. He was to contact Christian trade unionists.
• TROUT: Philippe Koeningswerther, a radio operator, dropped in on November 26. His radio was found by the police. Koeningswerther was arrested in 1943 and executed in 1944.
• COD: Edgard Tupët-Thomé and Joseph Piet dropped in on December 8. They were to set up the Antoine network. Both were injured. Piet was arrested, escaped, and re-arrested. He was sent to Dachau but survived.
• PLAICE: Pierre Moureaux, a radio operator, arrived by boat on December 31, 1941. He was arrested in February 1942 and sent to Dachau, but was freed in 1945.

Missions in 1942

• ROBERT/PERCH/MAINMAST-A: Jean Moulin, Raymond Fassin, and Joseph Monjaret parachuted in on January 1, 1942. Their big goal was to unite and coordinate all the Resistance groups. Monjaret was arrested and sent to Mauthausen, but survived.
• DACE/CYPRUS/HORNBEAM: Louis Bourdat dropped in on January 25, 1942. He had a narrow escape when French police, who were friendly to the British, helped him find a lost shoe. He was later fatally shot during a gun battle.
• NICK/PERNOD: Robert Delattre dropped in to replace a radio operator who had been executed. Delattre was arrested and died in prison.
• EASTER: Jacques Soulas landed by plane on April 1/2. He had several intelligence tasks for Dewavrin.
• BRIDGE/ISABELLE/CAHORS/PHALANX: François Faure and Christian Pineau landed by plane on April 27, 1942. They helped Pierre Brossolette and Jacques Robert leave France. Faure was arrested and sent to Dachau, but survived.
• BASS: Henri Labit dropped in on May 1, 1942, to set up a resistance network. He was stopped on a train, and his radio was found. He shot two Germans before escaping, then took a cyanide pill to avoid capture.
• PILCHARD: Henri Clastère, Paul Bodhaine, and Maxime Gaudin parachuted in on May 5, 1942. Their mission was to destroy a radio transmitter. They returned to the UK.
• GOLDFISH: René-Georges Weill, André Montaut, and Olivier Jacques Courtaud parachuted in to supply radios to the Front National. Courtaud was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen, but survived.
• SHRIMP: Gaston Tavian and Jacques Pain landed on May 29, 1942, to set up the action branch of the Antoine network.
• SALMON: Maurice de Cheveigné, a radio operator, parachuted in to work with Jacques Soulas.
• PYTHON: Pierre Brossolette and Jacques Robert dropped in on June 3 to set up the Phratrie network. Robert was arrested but escaped and reached London.
• CRAB/PERCH/MINNOW: Paul Frédéric Schmidt, Gérard Brault, and Jean Holley parachuted in on June 3. Holley and Jean Loncle were tortured by the Gestapo and sent to Mauthausen, but both survived.
• SARDINE: Roger Lardy landed by sea on June 11 to contact church leaders.
• DORY: Michel Gries parachuted in on June 23. He was arrested two days later but escaped and returned to London.
• CRAYFISH/BRILL: Jean Orabona, Henri Bertrand, and Xavier Rouxin dropped in on July 24. Orabona was fatally injured during the jump. Rouxin was arrested but escaped and returned to London.
• ROACH/MACKEREL: Jean Ayral, Francois Briant, and Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier dropped in on July 25. Ayral was killed in action in 1944. Briant was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived.
• BULL/MERCURE: Six agents, including Emmanuel d'Harcourt, landed by sea on August 17. D'Harcourt's mission was to connect with senior French officials. He was arrested but later freed and returned to London.
• BOREAS-II / BOREE / MERCURE: Pierre Delaye and Pierre Demoulin landed by plane, which crashed. Delaye was arrested and shot by the Gestapo.
• CLAM: Pierre Boutoule dropped in on August 31, 1942. He was arrested by the Gestapo but was freed and returned to London.
• ORLANDO: Émile Champion landed by sea on September 18.
• HAGFISH: Pierre Nogue dropped in. He was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen, but survived.
• CHUB: Pierre Julitte and others landed by sea on October 2. Julitte was arrested and sent to Buchenwald. He managed to send a report about V2 rocket manufacturing. He was freed in 1945.
• GARTERFISH: Marcel Damiens dropped in on October 31. His mission was to destroy two main transformers, which he successfully did before going home.
• 10 November 1942 - Germans overrun Demarcation Line (The Germans took control of all of France.)
• GIBEL/CATFISH: Henri Frenay and Emmanuel d’Astier de la Vigerie landed on November 17, 1942. Their goal was to unite three major Resistance movements.
• SKATE/SQUID: Roger Lardy, Jacques Pain, and another agent landed on November 22, 1942.
• PERCH-3/WHALE/GUDJEON: Gilbert Mus and Georges Denviolet dropped in on November 22, 1942. Their objectives included industrial sabotage. Mus was arrested and sent to Mauthausen, where he died. Denviolet was seriously injured during the jump and later arrested and sent to Buchenwald.
• RUFF/PIKE/CARP: Jean Loncle and Jean Paimblanc landed on November 25, 1942. Loncle was arrested. Paimblanc escaped to Spain.
• CHUB-MINOR/STARFISH/MENHAVEN: Louis Guillaume Marie Kerjean and Jean-Baptiste Simon landed on December 17, 1942. Kerjean was arrested and sent to several concentration camps, but was freed in 1945. Simon was arrested but escaped.
• COCKLE: Guy Lenfant and André Rapin dropped in on December 21, 1942. They organized the hiding of weapons and explosives. They left France in July 1943.

Missions in 1943

• HAWKINS/EMMANUEL: Michel Pichard and Louis Jourdren landed by sea on January 6, 1943.
• DAB/SEA URCHIN: Godefroy (Fred) Scamaroni, Jean-Baptiste Hellier, and James Anthony Jickell landed by sea in Corsica. Hellier was betrayed and shot.
• WHITEBAIT/PRAWN/GURNARD: Henry Borosh, Richard Heritier, and Charles Garland landed on January 26.
• PORPOISE/PRAWN/GURNARD: Henri Manhès, Richard Heritier, and Charles Garland dropped in on February 13. Manhès was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived. Heritier was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen, but escaped. Garland was arrested and freed.
• BREWER: Henri Clastère and Paul Bodhaine dropped in on February 15. Their goal was to destroy an aircraft factory.
• BURGUNDY: Georges Broussine landed near Saint Branchs. His plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on the way back, and all crew were captured.
• SEAHORSE: Forest Yeo-Thomas and André Dewavrin dropped in on February 26. Their mission was to organize the Resistance in France.
• TRAINER: Pierre Lejeune and other agents landed on March 17.
• SIRENE-II/PHALANX: Jean Moulin, General Charles Delestraint, and Christian Pineau landed on March 19. Moulin was arrested by Klaus Barbie and died from torture. Delestraint was arrested and shot. Pineau was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived.
• ROACH-4/MUSSEL-MINOR/WINKLE: Louis Tolmé and Jean-François Le Gac dropped in. Le Gac was arrested and died in a camp. Tolmé was arrested but survived.
• LEG/WHISKERS: Commandant Paulin Colonna d'Istria and Luc Le Fustec landed by submarine in Corsica on April 6, 1943. Their goal was to unite and coordinate the Corsican Resistance.
• PERCH-4/ROBALO/NAUTILUS/SHRIMP: Rodolphe Jove, Bernard Boulage, and Xavier Bouchet parachuted in on April 11. Their mission was to organize resistance activities in several areas. Boulage was betrayed, arrested, and died in Mauthausen. Jove escaped.
• HALIBUT: Alain Grout de Beaufort and Jacques Setruk landed on April 13, 1943. De Beaufort was arrested and shot. Setruk was arrested but escaped and returned to London.
• LIBERTY/JULIETTE: Jean Cavaillès, Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, and Robert Tainturier landed on April 15. Cavaillès was arrested, condemned to death, and shot.
• SCULPTOR: Pierre Natzler landed on April 15, 1943.
• DOGFISH: Francis-Louis Closon and Louis Marie Fraval landed on April 15, 1943. They were to contact a general and report on youth organizations supporting the Resistance.
• ROACH-3/FLOUNDER: Christian Motté-Houbigant parachuted in on April 15, 1943, to organize parachute operations in the Paris region.
• SABINE: Two passengers landed on April 19, 1943, possibly Jean-Claude Camors. Their goal was to set up an escape network. Camors was fatally injured in a battle and died.
• PENCILFISH: Several agents, including Jacques Voyer, left France on April 20, 1943. Voyer was later executed.
• BLUNDERBUS: Daniel Mayer landed on April 19, 1943. Eight passengers left France.
• ROACH-33/LING: Georges Lecot dropped in on April 20, 1943.
• NASTURTIUM/PHYSICIAN 31: Pierre Hentic dropped in on May 21, 1943, to organize flights for agents and Allied airmen. He was arrested and sent to Dachau, but survived.
• LEG-I/SKIN: Corsican Resistance leader Paulin Colonna d'Istria met with SOE on a ship on June 15, 1943.
• KNUCKLE-DUSTER: Claude Bouchinet-Serreules and Claude Sauvier landed on June 15, 1943. Bouchinet-Serreules was a deputy for Jean Moulin. A meeting they attended was interrupted by the SD, and many were arrested.
• ROACH42/BLUEFISH/DAGGER: René Cailleaud and Yves Picaud dropped in on June 20. Their mission was sabotage training. Cailleaud led successful attacks. Picaud was arrested and sent to Dachau, but survived.
• SCALP/TUBE-V: Paulin Colonna d'Istria and Luc le Fustec landed by sea in Corsica on July 2.
• BLOATER/ROACH-106: Roger Flouriot and Robert Barro dropped in on July 12. Barro was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived.
• HOWITZER: Guy Lenfant and André Rapin left France on July 15. Lenfant carried important information about German military positions.
• BOOMERANG/ROACH-71: Paul Riviére and Marcel Pellay dropped in on July 22. Riviére was to replace a captured agent. Pellay's mission included destroying locks. Pellay was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived.
• BUCKLER/FIGUE: Jean-Pierre Lévy and Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie landed on July 27. Eight passengers were picked up.
• POPGUN: Francis-Louis Closon, Jacques Bingen, and Gilbert Médéric-Védy landed on August 15. Closon and Bingen were to help Claude Bouchinet-Serreules. Bingen was betrayed, arrested, and took a cyanide pill.
• BOB-30/MARIOTTE/AMPERE/GALILE: Jean-François Clouët des Pesruches and Jacques Guérin dropped in on August 16, 1943. Guérin was sent to Dachau, but survived.
• ARMADA: André Jarrot and Raymond Basset dropped in on August 16. Their goal was to destroy high-voltage stations.
• BOB-16/PONTON/SOLDAT/TRAINER-24: André Bonnami and Albert Toubas dropped in on August 18, 1943. Bonnami was killed in action in 1944.
• TROJAN HORSE: Louis Franzini landed on August 23. He was a sabotage instructor and carried out operations.
• TUBE-VII/SCALOP-III: Lt Giannesini landed by submarine in Corsica on September 5.
• BATTERING-RAM/TORTUE: Eight passengers landed on September 12, 1943, including Col. André Rondenay and Lt/Col. Pierre Marchal. Rondenay and Noel Palaud were tasked with planning to delay German armored responses to an Allied invasion. Marchal was betrayed and took a cyanide pill.
• TANK: Eight passengers, mainly French Forces of the Interior (FFI) staff, landed on September 14.
• PIQUIER/IROQUOIS/FLAMAN/BOB-62: Raymond Fassin, Maurice de Cheveigné, Lt Michel Gries, and Pierre Jans dropped in on September 15. Fassin was arrested and died during deportation. Jans was arrested but freed.
• BOMB/SERIN/MARIE-CLAIRE: André Déglise-Favre, Pierre Brossolette, and Yeo-Thomas landed on September 18. Déglise-Favre was to set up a parachute/landing section. Brossolette and Yeo-Thomas were to assess the Resistance. Yeo-Thomas left France, Brossolette stayed.
• BOB-74/GERMAIN/RADO/SOCCER: Albert Billard and Leon Pelosse dropped in on September 18, 1943. Pelosse was in charge of sabotage training. He returned to the UK in 1944.
• HORDE: Robert Lefranc dropped in on September 20 to join a group. He was arrested but escaped. He was killed in action in 1944.
• PEASHOOTER/MUSC/SAP: Jean Rosenthal and other agents landed on September 21, 1943, to evaluate the Resistance in Haute-Savoie.
• BOB-68/BARK/FARADAY: François Delimal and Jean Jolivet dropped in on October 16, 1943. Delimal was in charge of parachute operations. Jolivet was arrested and died in a camp.
• SHIELD: Émile Laffon, Armand Louis Khodja, Michel Cailliau, and Henri Deschamps landed on October 16. Their mission was to analyze the situation and conduct sabotage. Khodja was arrested and sent to Bergen-Belsen, but survived. Cailliau returned to London.
• HELM/MARKSMAN/XAVIER: Jean Rosenthal and other agents landed on October 18. This mission was mainly to help 18 members of the Provisional Assembly leave France.
• SWORD: André Schock and Dr José Aboulker landed on October 20. Schock was arrested and sent to Bergen-Belsen, but survived. Aboulker was nominated as head of health for the Maquis.
• JOHN-26/LOUGRE-A/COTRE-A/ARMADA-III: André Jarrot and Raymond Basset dropped in on November 7. Their goals were sabotage operations. They returned to the UK in 1944.
• STARTER/TRAINER-60/TRAINER-67: Mario Yves Montefusco dropped in on November 10 to establish radio links.
• TOMMY-GUN: René Houze and Georges Broussine landed to help Yeo-Thomas leave France with important information about V1 rocket installations.
• WATER PISTOL: Col. Claude Bonnier, Cpt. Jacques Nancy, André Desgranges, and André Charlot landed on November 15. Their goal was to reorganize the Resistance in Southwest France. Nancy received many honors for his actions.
• PATCHOULI: Marcel Suarès, Pierre Briout, and Ernest Gimpel dropped in on November 25. Their mission was to destroy ball-bearing factories.
• STEN: Cpt. Claudius Four, Émile Cossonneau, and Gilbert Médéric-Vedy planned a landing on December 10. Four and Cossonneau were killed by anti-aircraft fire.
• MARC-1: Gérard Hennebert and Henri Drouilh's drop was canceled due to fog. Their plane crashed. Hennebert was rescued, Drouilh was killed.
• BOB-66/LEMNISCATE: François Fouquat, Lt Maurice Juillet, and Yves Léger dropped in on December 20. Fouquet and Briout were killed in 1944. Juillet was arrested and died in a camp. Léger was shot by French Gestapo agents.
• HARRY-15: Jean Gosset, André Rousse, and Gaston Legrand dropped in on December 30. Gosset took over leadership of a group despite being badly injured. He was arrested and died in a camp.

Missions in 1944

• MARC-1: Gérard Hennebert, Eugene Bornier, Paul Leistenschneider, Jean Chaboud, and Paul Olivier dropped in on January 4, 1944. Hennebert was to head a parachute section. Chaboud was caught and shot.
• JOHN-38 / IAM MISSION - UNION-1: Henry Thackthwaite, Peter Ortiz, and Camille Monnier dropped in on January 6, 1944. Their goal was to assess the Resistance in the Vercors region. Monnier was betrayed, caught with his radio, and executed.
• SF4: André Barbier and Alfred Lebosquain du Plessis dropped in on January 8. Barbier was injured, arrested, but escaped.
• PETER-16/VANILLE: Didier Faure-Beaulieu dropped in on January 27. This was part of an operation to "persuade" French factory owners that helping the Allies was better than having their factories bombed.
• MARC-1/VARLIN: Edmond Leylavergne, Maxime Malfettes, and Maurice Escoute dropped in on January 27. Escoute was fatally injured during the drop.
• PAUL-9: André Jamme, Georges Héritier, Georges Vaudin, Guy Lacoeuille (all sabotage instructors), Maurice Bougon, and André Touron dropped in on January 28.
• BOB-73: Pierre-Emile Manuel, Henri Pergaud, Robert Casse, and Robert Aubiniere dropped in on January 28, 1944. Manuel, Casse, and Aubiniere were arrested and sent to concentration camps, but Aubiniere survived.
• JOHN-25/ACTION/CIRCONFERENCE: Marguerite Petitjean, Yvon Morandat, René Obadia, and Eugène Déchelette dropped in on January 29. Their goal was to set up the ACTION network and prepare for D-Day.
• MARC-1B/ADVOCAT: Léon Nautin dropped in on February 4 to head operations for the Toulouse region.
• BLUDGEON/UNION-1: Seven passengers, including Pierre Fourcaud and Jacques Lecompte-Boinet, landed on February 8, 1944. Fourcaud was arrested but escaped.
• PETER 16B: Danielle Reddé and Yves Labous dropped in on February 8. Reddé is thought to be the first female RF agent dropped into France. Labous was arrested and sent to Buchenwald, but survived.
• UNKNOWN-1: Yves le Corvaisier dropped in on February 10 to be a radio operator.
• PETER-16C/ IAM MISSION - ASYMPTOTE: Forest Yeo-Thomas, Maurice Lostrie, and Robert Koening dropped in on February 24. Yeo-Thomas tried to rescue Pierre Brossolette.
• HARRY-15B/FANTASSIN: Jeanne Bohec dropped in on February 29. Her mission was to train Resistance members in Brittany. She gained the nickname "the cyclist saboteur."
• BOB-141/DE RETZ: Jean Sriber and Guy Fassiaux dropped in on February 3. Their mission was to scout V1 rocket launch sites. They were arrested, but Sriber escaped, and Fassiaux survived his deportation.
• BOB-136&141/1: Georges Ballini dropped in on March 2.
• UNKNOWN-2: Cpt Roger Mitchell and a female radio operator entered France on March 2, 1944, to contact the local Maquis for the Jedburgh Plan.
• JOHN-23: Two unknown female agents' drop was canceled. Their plane was shot down, and five crew members were killed.
• BOB-73B: François Baloche, Jean-Marie Molinie, Alexandre Klatama, and Robert Caille dropped in on March 15, 1944. Their goal was factory sabotage.
• SEPTIMUS I: Gilbert Médéric-Védy, Alexandre de Courson de la Villeneuve, Pierre Jolinon, and Charles Akoun landed by sea on March 17, 1944. Médéric-Védy was arrested.
• PAUL-9: Charles Bernard Schlumberger, Pierre Haymann, and Michel Couvreur dropped in on March 18, 1944. Schlumberger was to become head of a region.
• SEPTIMUS-II: Henri Guillermin, Roland Pré, and René Cornec landed by sea on March 21.
• JOHN-75: Jean-Pierre Cabouat dropped in on March 22, returning to his post as a regional assistant.
• DICK-45: Alix Michelle d'Unienville and Jacques Brunschwig dropped in on March 31. D'Unienville carried 40 million French Francs for the Resistance. She was arrested but escaped from a train.
• ORME/BAMBOU: Fernand Gouguenheim, Armand Douhet, Jacques Chimot, and René Cureau landed on March 31, 1944.
• TABOURET: Michel Lancesseur and Dominique Ferracci dropped in on April 1, 1944, to prepare the Maquis for Allied landings. Lancesseur was arrested and executed.
• HARRY 28B: René Carrel and Jean-Marie Couedelo dropped in on April 9, 1944.
• TOM-44A: Antoine Baille dropped in on April 9, 1944.
• DICK-51: An unknown agent dropped in on April 9, 1944.
• PAUL 9B: Jean-Baptiste Giorgetti dropped in on April 10, 1944. Giorgetti successfully attacked sabotage targets. He was betrayed, injured, and executed.
• JOHN 38A: Jean-François Paris, Henri Benhamou, Roger Olive, and David (X) dropped in on April 10, 1944. Olive was killed in an ambush.
• JOHN-25A: Émile Loison dropped in on April 21, 1944.
• PAUL-9C: François Muller dropped in on April 24, 1944, to be a radio operator.
• JOHN-67A: James Leopold Salmon dropped in on April 24, 1944.
• ORGANIST: Robert Dupuis landed on April 30, 1944.
• JOHN-111: Jean Cendral dropped in on May 5, 1944, to join a radio team. He was dropped with money and weapons.
• PAUL-90: Maurice Deligne dropped in on May 7, 1944.
• PETER-79A / IAM MISSION - BENJOIN: Frederick Cardozo, Bernard Gouy, Jean Trollet, and Jacques Lebaigue dropped in on May 7, 1944. This was an Allied mission to arm the Resistance.
• DONALD-64: Jean Brunet, Raymond Fauveau, and Jean Rémy dropped in on May 8, 1944.
• MINEUR: Aubin Clément, Henri Hirigoyen, Suzanne Bonnand, Désiré Browaeys, and possibly Jacques Rosenthal landed on May 9, 1944.
• GORGE: Dr Henri Rosencher landed by sea on May 13, 1944. His goal was to organize health services for the Maquis. He was arrested and sent to Dachau, but survived.
• DONALD-64A: Robert Rodrigues, Raymond Nagel, Antoine Levasseur, and Denis Masson dropped in on May 22, 1944.
• DONALD-7: Claude Geisenberger, Yves Lebigre, and Gérard Gaussen dropped in on May 22, 1944.
• IAM MISSION - CITRONELLE-2A: Jacques Chavannes, Marc Racine, and Lucien Goetghebeur dropped in on June 5, 1944, to establish Resistance in the Ardennes.
• 6 June 1944 Invasion of Northern France (Operation Neptune or D-Day)
• DONALD-6C: Jean Pietri, Pierre Sonneille, and X Merot dropped in on June 6, 1944.
• DONALD-5: René Gaumondie and two other agents dropped in on June 7, 1944.
• JOHN-87A: Jean Rosenthal, Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, and Paul Rivière dropped in on June 7, 1944, with money, to connect Allied forces and the Resistance.
• UNKNOWN-3: Guy Vivier dropped by mistake on June 8, 1944.
• YAMBO: Guy Lenfant and Marius Gaudemard entered France on June 11, 1944, to set up a radio network.
• SUNFLOWER-7: Anatole Willk dropped in on June 13.
• TABOURET/CHICKEN: Joseph Meistermann, Louis Pacaud, and Jean Maurice Muthular d'Errecalde dropped in on June 13, 1944. D'Errecalde was betrayed, imprisoned, tortured, and executed.
• PECTORAL: Jean-Paul Vaucheret, William Massey, and Andre Lucaire dropped in on June 13, 1944.
• DONALD-22A: Jean Vimont-Vicary dropped in on June 14, 1944. He was killed in action in September 1944.
• PETER-38C: Maxime Plault and Pierre Sylvian Bonnidal dropped in on June 14, 1944.
• PERCY-13: Claude Gros dropped in on June 18, 1944, to organize a Maquis group.
• PERCY-19 / IAM MISSION BERGAMOTTE:: Jacques Robert, Jean Gorodiche, Joseph Gagliardi, and Jack Thomas Shannon dropped in on June 27, 1944. Their goal was to organize and equip Maquis groups, carry out sabotage, and protect infrastructure.
• TANDEM / MISSION-2: Henri Hostein and Roger Sautereau dropped in on June 28, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-4: Albert Glatigny landed by sea on June 28, 1944.
• PETER-16F: Charles Jean François Marie Le Bihan dropped in on July 1, 1944.
• DONALD-19B / VERVEINE: André Lemaitre, André Michon, Noel Colli, and Germaine Adrienne Heim dropped in on July 5, 1944. Heim was a radio operator.
• PERCY-7F: Jean Sibileau and Josiane Somers dropped in on July 6, 1944. Sibileau led sabotage of a railway line and was killed in action. Somers was one of the youngest female SOE agents.
• IAM MISSION EUCALYPTUS: Several agents, including Adrien Conus and Lt Col Viat, landed on July 6, 1944. Their mission was to evaluate the situation, arm, and instruct the Maquis. Conus was captured but escaped. Viat was honored for preventing German troops from crossing the Loire.
• MISSION 2/11: Jean Tournissa, Yves Morineaux, Paul Emile Scherrer-Sauvage, Francis Billon, and René Abily dropped in on July 6. They were to prepare an airfield, which was later overrun by Germans. Tournissa was wounded and killed. Billon broke his leg and was later executed.
• JOHN-60/CANELLE: André Jarrot, René Ancel, Pierre Boucher, Pierre Guilhemon, and Raymond Gazeau dropped in on July 9, 1944. Jarrot was to become head of a region.
• JOHN-22A/GINGEMBRE: Raymond Basset, Pierre Boutoule, Marcel Reveilloux, Dominique Zanini, and Michel Castets dropped in on July 9, 1944. Their goal was to organize Resistance groups and prevent German retreat.
• UNKNOWN-5: Pierre Paul Marie Malafosse dropped in on July 9, 1944.
• TERRASSE: Pierre Blanchard and Edouard Pays dropped in on July 11, 1944.
• VENTRILOQUIST-39: Charles Lonchambon dropped in on July 16, 1944.
• LONDON-462: Louis Parayre, François Granry, Lavigne, and Michel Coste dropped in on July 17, 1944.
• EARTH/PEUPLIER: François Chatelin, Etienne Jean Schricke, Jean Philippe Lemaire, Roger Reverchon, Jacques Albert Palle, and Marcel Bouche dropped in on July 17, 1944.
• GILES-2: Ambroisse Bossard, Marcel Siche, and Jean Bernard dropped in on July 17, 1944, to help organize Resistance. Bossard drowned in an accident.
• HARRY-42A: Jean François Clouët des Pesruches and Pierre Bachelet dropped in on July 17, 1944. Clouët des Pesruches was to become head of a region.
• IAM AMICT-2: Paul Emile, Robert Boucart, and René Hébert dropped in on July 18, 1944, to join a Maquis management team.
• ALOES: Michel Pichard and Jean Leroux dropped in on July 20, 1944, to prepare for another mission.
• TENERIFFE: Louis Ludovic de Redo Vareuil and Paul Baudry landed on July 27, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-x: Dominique Hepp, Alain Guynot de Boismenu, and five French Officers dropped in on July 31, 1944, to supervise the Drôme Maquis.
• PAUL-104: Marcel Tardy and Abel Moreau dropped in on August 6, 1944.
• TOM-54: Raoul Dal Col dropped in on August 6, 1944.
• PERCY-29A: Lefranc and Raymond Cara dropped in on August 6, 1944.
• MACHETTE: André Dammaw, Marcel André, René Dolmaire, and Roger Mallard landed on August 7, 1944, to support various Maquis. Dolmaire was killed in action.
• POIGNARD: Germaine Gruner, Jean Rosselli, Prosper Yafil, Maurice Revel, and Emile Bahra landed on August 10, 1944.
• JOHN-133A: André Jarrot dropped in on August 10, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-6: Jean Edgard Pitre, Frederick Cardozo, Bernard Gouy, Jacques Lebaigue, and Jean Trollet dropped in on August 11, 1944.
• CIVETTE: Louis Georget, Georges Medioni, Henri Clastère, and Paul Bodhaine dropped in on August 11, 1944. Their goal was to destroy V1 and V2 equipment. Medioni was killed in the drop. Georget was arrested but survived.
• BOB-224: Michel Pichard, Cécile Chassain de Marcilly, and Maurice Roschbach dropped in on August 11, 1944. Pichard was to organize air drops.
• PETER-83: Charles Hora and Henri Hubert dropped in on August 11, 1944.
• TANDEM: Jean-Robert Lefèvre, Elle Benchetrit, and Lt Denis dropped in on August 12, 1944.
• TRICYCLE: Jean Forman, Jean Liucci, Constant Delaporte, and Guy Champagnol dropped in on August 13, 1944.
• DONALD-22E: Henri Guarracino, Xavier Rouxin, and Georges Bridon dropped in on August 13, 1944.
• 15 August 1944 Invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon)
• CITRONELLE-2B: Henri Richard de Vesvrotte and Robert Georgin dropped in on August 15, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-7: Jacques Chaban-Delmas landed on August 15, 1944. He was responsible for military coordination between the FFI and Allied command.
• JOHN-67C: Pierre Jouanno, Louis Franzini, and Paul Leistenschneider dropped in on August 16, 1944.
• PETER-89A: Jean Edgard Pitre dropped in on August 16 & 17, 1944, to assist local Maquis.
• PERCY-13G: Georges Lustac dropped in on August 16, 1944.
• BOB-256: Max Noirez and Jean Marcel Culas dropped in on August 17, 1944. Culas was head of flight operations.
• PERCY-47: Charles-Joachim Polak dropped in on August 17, 1944.
• CITRONELLE-2: S/Lt Shiltz and Jean-François Alix dropped in on August 27, 1944.
• MESSENGER-35A: Lt Col de Reald and Étienne Burin des Roziers dropped in on August 27, 1944.
• TRICYCLE: Camille Lancel, Herbert Broussse, Lucien Leger, and Gilbert Siorat dropped in on August 29, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-8: Edmond Brunet, Pierre Bonnet, Georges Edouard, Pierre Morruzzi, and Maurice Decam dropped in on August 29, 1944.
• DAUNTSEY: Charles Béraudier and four others landed on August 31, 1944.
• DONALD-22F: René Carrel dropped in on August 31, 1944.
• TANDEM?: James Chaillat and five other agents dropped in on September 1, 1944, for Maquis management.
• BOB-279: Robert Bloc and Marguerite Gianello dropped in on September 1, 1944.
• ROVING / GUNNER: Jean Gorodiche landed on September 2, 1944.
• MARC-19B: X, Jean Volny Richaud, Claude Delaveau, Michel Vautrin, Claude Albenois, and Paul Verges dropped in on September 4, 1944.
• WELDER-2: Henri Romans-Petit and Denis Johnson left France on September 4, 1944.
• PETER-38G: Jean-Marie Wagner, Gaston Viguier, and Jean Berberian dropped in on September 5, 1944.
• FAILSWORTHY-I: Gérard Levy landed on September 5, 1944.
• MARC-19: Anatole Willk dropped in on September 7, 1944. His goal was to clear out remaining Germans.
• PERCY-8B: Jean Louis Buissière-Paccard, Jacques Engels, Robert Gaitz, René Marbot, Jacques Naturel, Pierre Cera, and Pierre Wahl dropped in.
• MIXER: Etienne Versaud and four others landed on September 8, 1944.
• PERCY-65: Jean Coste and two others dropped in on September 9, 1944.
• HOUSING-1: Léon Pelosse and 30 BCRA Officers landed by sea on September 9, 1944, to help liberate a German-held area.
• HECKLER-4A: Jean Dischamps dropped in on September 11, 1944.
• UNKNOWN-9: Maurice Barthelemy landed in Paris on September 11, 1944.
• MARC-19: Jean Boven, Pierre Rabeau, and another agent dropped in on September 15, 1944.
• FOWLMERE-1, FOWLMERE-2, FARSLEY: Several RF agents were involved in these operations between September 16-19, 1944.
• DULLINGHAM-3: Jean Marius Guillomot and two other agents landed on September 21, 1944.
• NEWMARKET-1: Two RF Agents landed by plane.
• UNKNOWN-10: Cecil Vincent Davin landed by sea on October 1, 1944.

• • SOE-F and SOE-RF sections were merged into the État-major des Forces Française de l'Intérieur (EMFFI) after D-Day. Operations from late 1944 fell under this new group and became harder to separate.