How 150 American spies holed up in Berkshire countryside to analyse intelligence ahead of D-Day

They used farmhouses to plan the Allied invasion of France on D-Day, June 6 With its half-timbered houses and picturesque church on the banks of the Thames, cmay seem an unlikely place to find one of the last great secrets of D-Day. Secret meetings: Ye Olde Bell pub, believed to be the setting for at least one wartime encounter between Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower Among those expected to attend the plaque unveiling is Sonia Purnell, the biographer of OSS agent Virginia Hall who was considered ‘the most dangerous of all Allied spies’ by the Gestapo, despite having a wooden leg. OSS agent Virginia Hall who was considered ‘the most dangerous of all Allied spies’ by the Gestapo, despite having a wooden leg Mr Mullins, 57, said: ‘In one message back to OSS she complained she was having problems with “Cuthbert”, her nickname for her false leg. The reply advised her to “eliminate” Cuthbert, who they mistakenly thought was another agent.’ Another OSS agent recruited two French girls forced to work in a brothel in Regensburg, Bavaria. It was the venue for at least one covert meeting between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the US Allied commander General Eisenhower, according to current landlord Lewis Poole.