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Stories and photos of the courageous men and women who served with Britain's Special Operations Executive during World War Two.
Joined April 2020
🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈.July 22, 1940: SOE is officially created at the instigation of Churchill to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied territory and aid resistance movements. #WinstonChurchill #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
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🅼🅾🅽🆄🅼🅴🅽🆃.Monument to Operation Cadillac at Pleaux, a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. One of three monuments in France. #OperationCadillac #WW2 3/3
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🅶🅾🅻🅳 🅱🆁🅸🅲🅺.Richard Goff, then aged 19 and the youngest crew member of the B-17 'Gold Brick' (100th BG), said a chill went down his spine when he saw and heard the resistants cheering and waving. "It was great to think that these were our allies and not our enemy." 2/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈.July 14, 1944: 320 USAAF B-17 aircraft drop arms to Resistance groups in France. In the Haute-Vienne department, SOE's Salesman II and Stationer networks co-ordinate the airdrops. #OperationCadillac #SOE #WW2 1/3. More information:
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈.July 13, 1916: Jane Kennedy (née Paton) is born in Ewell. She worked for SOE in Mandatory Palestine and India. On her SOE form she described her political views as "slightly socialist". #JaneKennedy #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
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RT @DrAmandaForeman: Women of Britain’s SOE in WWII—like Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo—risked everything as covert agents, defying ex….
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🅱🅾🅾🅺 🅻🅰🆄🅽🅲🅷.Stewart worked at Bletchley Park where SOE radio traffic went through the SIS-controlled radio station before SOE set up its own transmitting and receiving stations in June 1942. #RenaStewart #BletchleyPark #WW2 🇬🇧.
Today is launch day for The Story of Rena Stewart in Australia, Canada & the USA! Rena was a 100-year-old #BletchleyPark Girl in #WW2 who went on to translate Hitler's will & blaze a trail for female journalists at the #BBC. @PeriboBooks #Australia & @casematepub #USA & #Canada
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 12/13, 1944: W/T operators Robert Barro and Roger Flouriot, Free French Naval Forces members, leave England and parachute into France in a mission coordinated by the BCRA and SOE's RF Section. #RobertBarro #RogerFlouriot #FNFL #BCRA #SOE #WW2 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
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🆆🅴🅻🅱🅸🅺🅴.The SOE designed Welbike is a folding motorcycle used by Royal Marines Commando units (Anzio/Normandy) and the British 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions (Arnhem). #Welbike #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
Mechanics from No 3 Commando's motor transport section assemble Welbike miniature motorcycles and take them for test runs and check on the condition of bicycles belonging to the Commando's cycle troop, 1944. IWM A70 22-3 <1/2>
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🅾🆁🅰🅻 🅷🅸🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈.Loosmore was interviewed by @I_W_M in 1998 about his experiences during World War II. #RobertGlynLoosmore #SOE #WW2 3/3. Link:
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🅴🆅🅰🅳🅴 🅲🅰🅿🆃🆄🆁🅴.Sgt. Loosmore saved Maj. Parkinson and Lt. Verneuil from capture when the Germans raided the farmhouse in which they were hiding. They were evacuated while Sgt. Loosmore stayed in France. He later served in Burma. #RobertGlynLoosmore #SOE #WW2 2/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 11/12, 1944: Sgt. Robert Loosmore leaves England and parachutes into occupied France with two other Jedburghs who were seriously injured due to their B-24 aircraft being in the wrong place and too low. #RobertGlynLoosmore #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅱🅾🅾🅺.'A Most Irregular War' is the diary of Major Trofimov and features an introduction by Dr G. H. Bennett and a forward by @richard_duckett. #AMostIrregularWar #AubreyAlwynEdgarTrofimov #WW2 3/3. Link:
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🅾🆁🅰🅻 🅷🅸🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈.Trofimov was interviewed by @I_W_M in 1992 about his experiences during World War II. #AubreyAlwynEdgarTrofimov #SOE #WW2 2/3. Interview:
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 11/12, 1944: Aubrey Trofimov and two other members of Jedburgh Team Guy parachute into north-western France to organise resistance groups in Ille-et-Vilaine. He later serves in Burma. #AndréDuron #RogerGroult #AubreyAlwynEdgarTrofimov #SOE #WW2 1/3
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 10/11, 1944: Nicolas Bodington leaves England and parachutes into France to reactivate the Professor network knowing the Gestapo has a photo of him and a price on his head. #NicolasBodington #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 10/11, 1944: Captain Jack Hayes leaves England and parachutes into France to lead SOE's Helmsman mission to gather intel on enemy defences and recruit guides. #JohnBeresfordHayes #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
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RT @SOE_Expeditions: This week in history, July 1940 the British government created one of the most daring and unconventional organizations….
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RT @DrHelenFry: SATURDAY 26TH JULY. WARMINSTER PARK. This is a military-themed fundraiser to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two.….
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RT @richard_duckett: Some decent reviews in! .If anyone who left one of them is on here, thank you!.
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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃.July 9/10, 1944: Major Colin Ogden-Smith and two other Jedburghs parachute into occupied France to aid resistance forces in Finistère. He is KIA on 29 July. #ColinOgdenSmith #Jedburgh #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧. More information:
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