RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II Grehan John
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II Grehan John The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role…
Specifikacia RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II Grehan John
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II Grehan John
The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. Not only did the RAF supply the SOE, and the movements it led and coordinated, with the thousands of tons of arms and equipment needed to undertake this role, it also delivered and retrieved agents from under the very noses of the enemy.Compiled at the end of the war by the Air Historical Branch of the RAF, this is an extremely detailed and comprehensive The culmination of their efforts was seen when the Allied armies landed at Normandy in June 1944, with the SOE and the resistance causing widespread destruction and disruption behind the German lines.None of this would have been possible had it not been for the Royal Air Force.