Editing Timeline of SOE French Section (section)

===September 1941===
:'''September'''
::[[Maurice Buckmaster]] was appointed the leader of SOE F Section.{{sfn|Cookridge|1967|page=55}} At this time the SOE headquarters staff of Section F consisted of eight people which would be increased to 24 during the next year and many more thereafter. [[Nicolas Bodington]] became Buckmaster's deputy.{{snf|Cookridge|1967|page=57}}

:'''4/5 September'''
::The first clandestine landing of a [[Westland Lysander]] airplane in support of SOE F Section took place on a farm field in [[Indre]] Department. the Lysander dropped off SOE agent Gerald Morel and picked up Jacques Vaillant de Guélis. The Lysander transported agents and reports back and forth from England to France and vice versa.<ref name="Verity">{{cite book |last1=Verity |first1=Hugh |title=We Landed by Moonlight |date=2017 |publisher=Crecy Publishing Ltd. |location=Manchester |isbn=9780947554750 |page=204}}</ref> 
 
[[File:Westland Lysander-B-MA.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Westland Lysander landed on farm fields and ferried SOE agents, arms, and equipment back and forth from France to England.]]

:'''6/7 September'''
::SOE agents [[Benjamin Cowburn]], [[Michael Trotobas]], [[Victor Gerson]], [[George Langelaan]], [[:fr:Jean du Puy|Jean du Puy]], and [[:fr:André Bloch (SOE)|André Bloch]] parachuted into France at night near [[Châteauroux]]. They were met by Bégué, [[Max Hymans]], and a local farmer, Octave Chanteraine.{{sfn|Foot|1976|page=172}} Cowburn, Trotobas, and Gerson would become important SOE agents.

:'''19/20 September'''
::SOE agent [[Francis Basin]] arrived in France by clandestine boat and set up operations in [[Cannes]] on the [[French Riviera]].  He came into contact with an organization called [[Carte network|Carte]] headed by an artist named [[André Girard (1901–1968)|André Girard]] who claimed to have organized a large group of resisters to German control. Basin's reports on Carte gave SOE hope that it could be used as the spearhead of a large resistance movement to the Germans.{{sfn|Cookridge|1967|pages=89-92}}