Who was Noor Inayat Khan and what made her wartime service remarkable?
Answer
A British SOE agent of Indian-American descent and Buddhist pacifist who became the first female wireless operator parachuted into occupied France, was a descendant of Tipu Sultan, and was eventually executed at Dachau
Did You Know?
Noor was captured, held chained in solitary confinement for months in Pforzheim prison, then transferred to Dachau where she was executed in 1944. Despite brutal torture, she revealed nothing. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross, Britains second-highest civilian honor.