In 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour Doyle parachuted into Nazi-occupied France as a secret agent for Britain’s Special Operations Executive. Disguised as a teenager selling embroidery patterns, she rode a bicycle through Normandy villages—gathering intelligence for the D-Day invasion.

She hid coded messages in a string of silk that looked like lace and memorized over 2,000 code groups to avoid detection. Armed with charm, wit, and a hidden radio, she passed crucial information to Allied forces—all while appearing to be just another girl on a bike.

She never talked about what she’d done in wartime France—not even to her family. It wasn’t until her children found her story online that she agreed to accept her medals.

In 2014, the French government awarded her the Légion d’Honneur for her bravery. She died in August 2023 at the age of 102.