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Morris Berg was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball, who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. [53] Julia Child: Child worked for the OSS on the development of shark repellents. This was to ensure that sharks would not explode ordnance targeting German U-boats. [54] William J. Donovan
Westland Lysander Mk III (SD), the type used for special missions into occupied France during World War II. The principal aircraft of 161 Squadron was the Westland Lysander. [115] It handled very well at low speed and could land from touch down to turn around in only 150 yards (140 m). [116]
The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991) ISBN 0911333916; Chambers II, John Whiteclay. OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II (NPS, 2008) online; chapters 1-2 and 8-11 provide a useful summary history of OSS by a scholar.
The game of the foxes: the untold story of German espionage in the United States and Great Britain during World War II (1971), popular. Haufler, Hervie. Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II (2014). Hinsley, F. H., et al. British Intelligence in the Second World War (6 vol. 1979). Beesly, Patrick, et al.
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Guy Ritchie's latest follows a group of British special forces who took on German U-boats during World War II — and helped inspire James Bond. Here's what's fact and what's fiction.
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand born nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
Detroit's role as the arsenal of democracy attracted spies who wanted to thwart America's military might. Learn about the man who stopped those spies.