 He was first parachuted into France on 27/28 August 1942 north of Grenoble.He was dropped in the wrong place and became a radio operator for the SPINDLE network (codename "Arnaud"), with Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom, and managed to evade capture when that network collapsed.With Victor Hazan (codename "Gervais"), he got back in contact with the network's contacts around Annecy and on the Côte d’Azur before returning to England via Spain.