Noor Inayat Khan

    Noor Inayat Khan was born on the first of January, 1914 in Moscow, Russia to an Indian father and an American mother. Her family moved to London then Paris. She later fled to England during the fall of France and joined the WAAF (Woman's Axillary Air Force) in late 1942, before becoming a radio operator shortly after. In June of 1943 she was flown to France as a radio operator for the Prosper network in the French Resistance in Paris. Most of her group was arrested by the Germans, but she escaped and continued to travel from place to place giving out messages to England about German plans. In October, she was betrayed by a French woman and was turned in and arrested by the Gestapo. She had kept copies of the messages that she had sent to London and the Germans found them and used them to send messages to the British. The Germans gave out false information and told them to send more agents, so they could capture them. Later in November of 1943, Khan was sent to Pforzheim prison in Nazi Germany where she was tortured to try and get information out of her but she never said a word. A year later, in 1944, she and three others were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp where they were shot and killed on the thirteenth of September. Khan was awarded the George Cross in 1949 for her bravery during the war. France also honored her service and bravery by awarding her the Croix de Guerre. Her story lives on in London where they made a memorial to honor her courage in the second world war. 

By Cordel Bever
Sources:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/inayat_khan_noor.shtml
Sources:  http://www.noormemorial.org/