Phyllis Latour, who has died aged 102, was the last remaining female member of F Section, the branch of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the second world war that organised resistance operations in France.
Codenamed Geneviève, she parachuted into Normandy on 2 May 1944, a month before D-day, to be a wireless operator for the Scientist 2 network run by Claude de Baissac (codenamed Scientist), who was coordinating operations by the communist Maquis resistance in support of the allied invasion.
