Editing Violette Szabo (section)

===Second mission===
After two aborted attempts, due to stormy weather on the night of 4/5 June and the abandonment of the intended landing ground on 5/6 June by the Resistance reception committee because of German patrols, Szabo and three colleagues were dropped by parachute from a [[USAAF]] [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator|Liberator]] flown from [[RAF Harrington]] in [[Northamptonshire]] onto a landing field near [[Sussac]] on the outskirts of [[Limoges]] early on 8 June 1944 (immediately following [[D-Day]], and Tania Szabo's second birthday).{{efn|Vickers provides a useful illustrated narrative of Szabo's second mission and her capture by elements of 'Das Reich'.{{sfn|Vickers|2000|pp=97–110}}}} Szabo was part of a four-person team sent to operate in the department of Haute Vienne with the circuit codename 'Salesman II', led by her SOE commander Philippe Liewer (now codenamed Hamlet), whose rolled-up Rouen circuit had been 'Salesman', and including [[Second Lieutenant]] Jean-Claude Guiet (codenames Claude and Virgile) of the [[United States Army]] as wireless operator (W/O), and Bob Maloubier (alias Robert 'Bob' Mortier; codenames Clothaire and Paco), Szabo and Liewer's friend and comrade of SOE who was to act as military instructor to the local Maquis, and who had worked as weapons instructor and explosives officer for Liewer on the original Salesman I circuit. For this mission, Szabo's cover was that she was a Mme Villeret, the young widow of an antiques dealer from Nantes.{{sfn|Ottaway|2003|p=105}} It is possible Szabo had twisted an ankle on landing.{{sfn|Vickers|2000|p=102}}

Upon arrival, she was sent to co-ordinate the activities of the local [[Maquis (World War II)|maquis]] in sabotaging communication lines during German attempts to stem the [[Normandy landings]]. When he arrived in the [[Limousin]], Philippe Liewer found the local maquis to be poorly led and less prepared for action than he expected. To better co-ordinate [[Resistance during World War II|Resistance activity against the Germans]], he decided to send his courier, Szabo, as his liaison officer to the more active Maquis of [[Correze]] and the [[Dordogne]], led by Jacques Poirier (SOE), head of the renamed Digger circuit, who had taken over from Harry Peulevé of the Author circuit, upon the latter's arrest.{{sfn|Ottaway|2003|pp=101–105}} However, due to poor intelligence gathering by the local Resistance, Liewer was unaware that the [[2nd SS Panzer Division]] was making its slow journey north to the [[Normandy]] battlefields through his area.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}