Jackdaws
Overview:
Set in May 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, widowed mother Elisabeth "Betty" Clairet is tasked with assembling an unlikely commando of five civilian women to carry out a near-impossible mission: infiltrate an impenetrable château housing a key German communications hub and destroy it before the Normandy landings by the Allies.
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