Tempsford Academy

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 190281049X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tempsford Academy written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the role played by William Donovan, the OSS mission in London and the Carpetbaggers, the US Squadron which was sent to RAF Tempsford to be trained by the 'Moon Squadrons' before undertaking their own missions from Harrington. Not only does it describe the work of pilots and crew members, it also details some of the missions and gives insight into their social life. It includes the story of Owen Johnson and Elizabeth Devereaux Rochester, the first American agents to be parachuted into France, and Juup Kappius, Hilde Meisel and Ann Bayer, the first OSS agents to be sent into Germany before the invasion.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291863893
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOE GROUP B SABOTAGE TRAINING HANDBOOK written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the outbreak of war in 1939, the British Intelligence Services needed a school to train agents to be infiltrated behind enemy lines in occupied Europe. Brickendonbury Manor was requisitioned and run by the Secret Intelligence Service's D Section. They already had training schools in Palestine. With the formation of the Special Operations Executive in July 1940, they took over the training and Brickendonbury specialised in sabotage. George Rheam, described as the father of industrial sabotage, and fellow instructors prepared a handbook which was used by SOE trainers in similar schools overseas. Bernard O'Connor, author of numerous books on World War Two sabotage, provides a detailed foreword.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291787305
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackmail Sabotage: Attacks on French industries during World War Two written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-1943 Harry Rée, one of Britain's secret agents operating in eastern France, witnessed an RAF bombing mission on Peugeot's automobile factory in Sochaux/Montbéliard. As many bombs missed their target, damaging houses and killing innocent French civilians, he was aware that it could turn public opinion against the Allies. With the agreement of his boss in the Special Operations Executive, he approached one of Peugeot's directors and made him an offer: Agree to have your vital machinery sabotaged or have the factory destroyed by British or American bombers. To help the director decide, he was offered compensation by the Allies after the war. When this novel approach proved successful, SOE set up a blackmail sabotage committee which targeted over thirty French factories. Over twenty specially trained agents, both men and women, were infiltrated on missions which included blackmail sabotage. This book details their successes and failures.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291407413
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabotage in Holland written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and 1945, over twenty Dutch men attended a course in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK, before being parachuted into Holland to undertake attacks on targets across the country. This book tells the stories of their successes and failures.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291317074
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coffee Party written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1942, four passengers dismbarked in Scotland from one of a convoy of ships from Russia. Known as the COFFEE party, they had been sent to Britain as part of a top secret arrangement between Churchill and Stalin to infiltrate Soviet agents into occupied Europe. Originally from Vienna, they were destined to be parachuted into Austria. This historical faction tells their story, one of political intrigue and international diplomacy.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291337393
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do it Well and Do it Now written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War Two over a thousand saboteurs were trained at Brickendonbury, near Hertford, UK. This book tells the stories of the successes and failures of Ole Geisler, Christian Rottbøll, Erik Petersen, Aage Christensen, Paul Brandenborg, Flemming Muus and others who were parachuted into Denmark to help the Resistance before liberation in May 1945. It also details the sabotage work done by brave Danes, including Jørgen Kieler, Jørgen Schmidt and Bent Faurschou-Hviid.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 129191224X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elzbieta Zawacka: Polish soldier and courier during World War Two written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244850194
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, paid young Spanish men to undertake over sixty sabotage attacks on military installations and shipping with limited success. The Italian Decima Flotilla MAS, a specialist team of underwater frogmen, launched eight attacks which were relatively successful and Spanish Falangists made several unsuccessful attempts. The British Secret Intelligence Service endeavoured to stop or at least limit such attacks. Using contemporary files from the National Archives in Kew, autobiographies, biographies, histories and newspaper articles, this documentary history investigates the successes and failures of these attacks on Gibraltar and the roles played by intelligence officers, agents, double agents in discovering and preventing such acts. The book sheds light on an unusual and largely overlooked aspect of Gibraltar's history.

Author : Bunny Rymills
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291263888
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri Déricourt: Double or Triple Agent written by Bunny Rymills and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank 'Bunny' Rymills was an RAF pilot during World War Two. He flew on top secret missions into France from RAF Tempsford, a small airfield about fifty miles from London and half way between Cambridge and Bedford, or from RAF Tangmere on the south coast near Southampton. In his small Lysander aircraft, he carried secret agents and their luggage, landed them in remote fields and returned to England with important passengers. The man often waiting to meet him in France was Henri Déricourt, an enigmatic character who had the responsibility of arranging these flights, ensuring those to be sent back got to the field safely and the arriving agents sent on to their destinations to complete their dangerous missions behind enemy lines. When many of these agents were arrested, suspicion fell on Déricourt. Many thought he was a double or triple agent. Arrested after the war, he was tried and acquitted. This is Rymill's contribution to the debate.

Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445673614
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOE Heroines written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing stories of 38 female spies who operated in occupied France and Vichy France, many told for the very first time.