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Aug 11/12, 1944: On this date Jedburgh team Aubrey parachuted into the Seine-et-Marne region east of Paris to assist the SPIRITUALIST network. The team consisted of 2 Brits, Captain Godfrey Marchant (code name Rutland) & Sgt Ivor Hooker Thaler), & 1 Frenchman, Lt J Telmon (Kildare). The mission was to assist and coordinate with FFI groups in Seine-et-Marne area and undertake continuous attacks on rail, road, and communications targets.
#WW2 #SOE #Jedburgh #France #FFI
http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Moser/Jed%20Team%20AUBREY.pdf
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July 30, 1942: Yvonne Rudellat was the 1st female Special Operations Executive agent to go to France, arriving by sailboat on July 30, 1942 on the French coast, a few km east of Cannes. Her cover name was Jacqueline Gautier; Field name, Suzanne. She worked in the MONKEYPUZZLE circuit. Following imprisonment by the Nazis, she died of typhus on April 23 or 24, 1945, days after the Allies had liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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The Welbike was designed to fit into a CLE canister, the standard parachute airdrop container 51 inches long, 15 inches high, & 12 inches wide. Some 3,641 Welbikes were manufactured and though developed by the Special Operations Executive were used more by airborne troops (including in Operation Market Garden) then they were used by SOE operatives.(2/2)
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The Welbike was an air-droppable, single-seat folding motorcycle produced during WW2 by the Excelsior Motor Company of Birmingham, England. The bike was developed at Station IX operating out of a mansion, "The Frythe,” located near the town of Welwyn. Products of the Station were named in a portmanteau of the town and the invented device, sometimes in code. Thus the motorcycle was referred to as the Welbike. (1/2)
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The day after we saw the Lysander at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center historian and author Clare Mulley posted a link to this amazing ITV News video about the plane and its role at Newmarket field where #SOE agents in #WW2 left for their perilous and often deadly missions in occupied France. Gorgeous flight footage.
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Jul 8, 1924: Rachel Millard was born on this date. She worked for the Special Operations Executive during WW2. She was based at Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire, where she worked as a wireless operator, sending messages to French resistance agents until France's liberation. (Linked article is from 2024.)
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24438571.kidlington-caring-kind-woman-marks-100th-birthday/
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July 6: On this date in 1944 Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville was dropped into occupied France to join the JOCKEY circuit.
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June 17: On this date in 1902, recipient of the George Cross, F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas was born.
He served in the Special Operations Executive as an agent known as the White Rabbit and was one of the most highly decorated agents in WW2.
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June 15, 1921: On this date, future Special Operations Executive agent Ivan William Stanley Moss was born. He gained fame for the daring kidnapping of Nazi General & Governor of Crete, Heinrich Kreipe on April 26, 1944.
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June 9, 1911: Former Free French Forces intelligence officer Andre Dewavrin was born on this date. During WW2, Dewavrin, using the codename 'Colonel Passy', was an active member of the French Resistance & worked with Britain's Special Operations Executive.
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Lise de Baissac, Odette Sansom, & Andrée Borrel: Special Operations Executive’s female spies of the Normandy landings.
https://sofrep.com/news/soes-female-spies-of-normandy-landings/
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On June 1, 1944 the BBC broadcasted the first three lines of “Chanson d’automne” by Paul Verlaine:
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automneThe lines were used to alert French Resistance groups of the upcoming Normandy landings in June 1944.
#WW2 #Normandy #DDay #Resistance #Maquis #BBC #SOE #OSS
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/french-poem-signaled-d-day-invasion/
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The Secret War: Special Operations Executive's Wireless Operators in Occupied France.
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📍 68 km SSE of Soe, Indonesia
🕐 Thu 28 May 2026 01:46 UTC
🌍 M5.1 Earthquake 🟡 Moderate
📊 Magnitude: 5.1
📏 Depth: 10 km — Shallow
🗺️ -10.451, 124.473🔗 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000snzn
#Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #Survival #Soe #Indonesia
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May 27: On this date in 1942, Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, was carried out by soldiers of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile in conjunction with the Special Operations Executive. The operation was the only verified successful government-sponsored assassination of a senior Nazi leader during WW2. The Nazis took revenge on thousands of Czechs, including the mass murder & destruction of Lidice.
#WW2 #SOE #Czechoslovakia #Antifa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich
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May 27, 1916: On this date, future Special Operations Executive agent Jacqueline Nearne was born in Brighton, England. She served as a courier with the STATIONER circuit operating mostly in the Clermont-Ferrand area of France. Cover name: Jacqueline Norville. She worked in France for more than 14 months & subsequently returned safely to England. SOE F Section leader Maurice Buckmaster said Nearne was "one of the best (operatives) we have had."
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The 1958 movie, “Carve her Name with Pride,” about Violette Szabo may be watched on-line at this link. (3/3)
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Films released during the early post war period on Special Operations Executive agents include: “Odette” about Odette Sampson and “Carve her Name with Pride” about Violette Szabo. (2/3)
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📍 80 km SSE of Soe, Indonesia
🕐 Mon 25 May 2026 07:57 UTC
🌍 M4.9 Earthquake 🟢 Light
📊 Magnitude: 4.9
📏 Depth: 10 km — Shallow
🗺️ -10.5608, 124.4792🔗 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000t00w
#Earthquake #Seismic #EarthAlerts #DisasterAlert #BreakingNews #Environment #Nature #Science #OffGrid #Soe #Indonesia