Yvonne Baseden

**Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Based** MBE (20 Janairu 1922 - 28 Oktoba 2017), wacce daga baya aka fi sani da **Yvonne Burney**, tana ɗaya daga cikin mata kusan jami'an Special Operations Executive (SOE) arba'in waɗanda suka yi aiki a Faransa. Manufar SOE ita ce gudanar da leƙen asiri, ɓarna da leƙen asiri a Turai da aka mamaye a kan ikon Axis, musamman Jamus ta Nazi . Wakilan SOE a Faransa sun haɗa kai da ƙungiyoyin adawa kuma sun ba su makamai da kayan aiki da aka yi musu laƙabi da laima daga Burtaniya.

## Bayani da farkon rayuwa
An haife ta a Rue Violet, Paris. Mahaifin Baseden matukin jirgi ne a Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya a Royal Flying Corps . Ya yi hatsari a Faransa a gidan Comte de Vibraye, inda Comtesse ta gayyace shi don cin abincin dare. A lokacin cin abincin dare, ya haɗu kuma ya ƙaunaci 'yar Comte da Comtesse. Ma'auratan suka ci gaba da aure suka zauna a Faransa bayan ƙarshen Yaƙin. 

Iyalin sun yi tafiye-tafiye kuma sun zauna a ko'ina cikin Turai, don haka Basden ta sami ilimi a makarantu a Ingila, Faransa, Poland, Italiya, da Spain ban da kasancewa mai harsuna biyu (Turanci da Faransanci), ta kuma iya magana da harsuna da yawa. A shekarar 1937, iyalin suka ƙaura zuwa London, inda suka zauna a Tottenham. Basden ba ta da sha'awar makaranta kuma ta bar makaranta tana da shekaru 16 don yin aikin tsintar apple a Bedfordshire. A shekarar 1939, kafin barkewar yaƙi, ta koma Southampton, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin mai rubutu a harsuna biyu a wani kamfanin injiniya. 

## WAAF da Babban Jami'in Ayyuka na Musamman
A ranar 4 ga Satumba, 1940 (tana da shekaru 18), Baseden ta shiga Rundunar Sojojin Sama ta Mata (WAAF) a matsayin Sakatare Janar na Ayyuka (Lambar Sabis 4189). An nada ta a matsayin Jami'in Sashe a shekarar 1941 (daga baya an kara mata girma zuwa matsayin Jami'in Sashe) kuma ta yi aiki a reshen leken asiri na RAF, inda ta taimaka wajen yin tambayoyi ga sojojin sama da aka kama da kuma ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa. Ta wannan aikin ne ta sami kulawar Babban Jami'in Ayyuka na Musamman (SOE), wanda ta shiga a ranar 24 ga Mayu, 1943.

Baseden ta tashi daga sansanin sojin sama na RAF Tempsford kusa da Sandy a daren 18/19 ga Maris 1944. Sunan filin wasanta shine "Odette". An kai ta cikin jirgin parachute zuwa Faransa tare da Gonzague de Saint-Geniès, wani mai shirya fim na Faransa (sunan filin: "Lucien"). An jefa su cikin Kudu maso Yammacin Faransa, kusa da ƙauyen Gabarret. Masu adawa da yankin suna aiki ne da hanyar sadarwa ta George Starr mai suna "Wheelwright". Sun ɓoye su na 'yan kwanaki, sannan ta yi tafiyarta ta ƙetare Faransa, kayan aikinta na waya suna tafiya daban-daban, zuwa Jura a Gabashin Faransa, inda ta yi aiki na tsawon watanni uku a matsayin mai aiki da waya zuwa da'irar Scholar. Labarin murfinta shine "Mademoiselle Yvonne Bernier", mai buga rubutu kuma sakatare. 

Bayan mummunan faɗuwar iska mafi girma a lokacin yaƙin da aka yi a wannan lokacin, a lokacin binciken da Gestapo suka yi a ranar 26 ga Yuni 1944, ta makale a wani masana'antar cuku tare da abokan aikinta bakwai daga cibiyar. Wanda ya shirya ta ya sha maganin kashe kansa nan take, kamar yadda Gestapo ya san shi. An same Basden, an kama shi kuma aka tafi da shi don yin tambayoyi na gida. A ƙarshen wannan watan, an mayar da ita hedikwatar Gestapo da ke Dijon kuma aka tsare ta a cikin kurkuku kaɗai.

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