A PAIR of Second World War spies who helped to defeat the Nazis were amazed to meet by chance.

Ninety-two-year-old Sigrid Green, from Darwen, was on a visit to Bletchley Park when Mike Randles, 91, dropped to his knees before her and kissed her hand.

During the war, Miss Green, known as Gusta to her friends, was smuggled into occupied Norway to spy on German shipping movements and the manufacturing of heavy water – used to build the atom bomb.

While she was there, Mr Randles was part of a team of pilots flying reconnaissance missions over the country.

The heavy water plant was never found, but when the Germans tried to move production back to Germany, the Norwegian resistance sunk the ship carrying all the equipment.

And when she completed her time in Norway, it was a Mosquito that took Miss Green out of the danger and back home to Britain.

Miss Green said: “I walked from Norway to Sweden, which was neutral, to get out of the country.

“And in order to get home, I was put in the empty bomb bay of a Mosquito aircraft.

“It was very cold I can tell you.”

On her return, Miss Green was stationed at Bletchley Park, the famous secret intelligence headquarters where Enigma machines deciphered German codes.

It was on a return visit to the converted Buckinghamshire mansion that Miss Green and Mr Randles met.

Mr Randles, 91, from Abingdon, near Oxford, said: “It was pure coincidence that I met Gusta Green at Bletchley Park.

“I had never met her before. She did most of the talking but it was good to meet other people who were there.”

The flight lieutenant joined the RAF in 1941 and left in 1946.

“He took part in 36 operations covering Germany, France, Italy and Norway.

Miss Green was taken to Bletchley Park by PC Rachel Higson, from Lancashire Constabulary.

She was given a guided tour of the facility where she worked in 1944 and 1945.