Why is it taking decades for this to happen? "A former British wartime spy will this week be recognised for her part in liberating France from Nazi occupation - 70 years after she was parachuted behind enemy lines. Phyllis Latour Doyle spent years GATHERING information on German positions and risked her life to send 135 coded messages back to Britain before the country's 1944 liberation. For decades, the 93-year-old kept her heroic actions SECRET - only telling her four children about her wartime service 15 years ago. Speaking in a rare INTERVIEW five years ago, she said: 'My eldest son found out by reading something on the internet, and my children insisted I send off for my medals. She told New Zealand Army News: 'I was asked if I wanted them to be formally PRESENTED to me, and I said no, I didn't, it was my family who wanted them.' But Mrs Doyle, who now LIVES quietly in New Zealand, will be publicly recognised for her service when she receives the Legion of Honour, France's highest decoration, on Tuesday. It will be PRESENTED but the French ambassador to New Zealand as part of the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the battle of Normandy. Posting on Facebook, her son, Barry Doyle, who is understood to be ATTENDING the event, said that he is 'very proud'." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846368/Former-British-wartime-spy-93-finally-recognised-liberating-France-Nazi-occupation-decades-spent-keeping-wartime-service-secret.html#ixzz3JwRWYUS6
