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Lamb (1942) – Belgium, April/May W/T mission, to the secret army. Lavinia (1944) – Belgium, March/April field name Victorine, organisation mission, sabotage against river traffic and locks. Lear (1943) – Belgium, August to assist Stanley mission in cooperation with the secret army.
An account of Operation Gunnerside is part of Neal Bascomb's 2016 The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb (ISBN 9780544368057). Damien Lewis's book Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb (ISBN 9781786482082), also published that year, details the raid and the sinking of the SF Hydro.
SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare World War II. Secret History Files, National Archives. ISBN 1-903365-18-X. Stafford, David (2011). Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943–45. The Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1-84792-065-2. Stafford, David (2000). Secret Agent: the true story of the Special Operations Executive.
Rachlis, Eugene, They Came to Kill: The Story of Eight Nazi Saboteurs in America, New York: Random House, 1961. Persico, Joseph E., Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, New York:Random House, 2001, pp. 199–205. ISBN 0-375-50246-7; Federal Bureau of Investigation: George John Dasch and the Nazi Saboteurs
The 2024 film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare portrays a heavily fictionalized version of the operation, based on the 2014 book Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis. [38] [39]
The most successful mission in Transcaucasia was Operation Mainz which involved Georgian émigrés who hoped to restore the Democratic Republic of Georgia. [49] Mikheil Kedia [ ka ] , chief of the Georgian desk at Zeppelin in 1942–1943, [ 50 ] approached the Germans with a plan to exploit the open border between Turkey and Soviet Russia near ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. [2] [3] The 1,100-man unit was given a unique mission: to deceive Hitler's forces and mislead them as to the size and location of Allied forces, while giving the actual units elsewhere time to maneuver. [4]