The last woman of Churchill’s Secret Army: The spy who outsmarted the Reich and kept her secret for 50 years

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The last woman of Churchill’s Secret Army: The spy who outsmarted the Reich and kept her secret for 50 years

Friday 31st October 2025, 7:44AM

Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle, the last surviving female spy of Churchill’s Special Operations Executive, died in 2023 aged 102. Two years on, her story resurfaces as a timeless portrait of quiet heroism, a young woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, outwitted the Gestapo, and changed the course of D-Day, only to keep silent for half a century.

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