Special Operations and Intelligence

Life at Bletchley Park

The Testery was able to decrypt the partially decrypted messages produced by the Newmanry so that all the...

Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE Part 3

Violette became particularly friendly with Solange, whilst Lilian was befriended by Renee Corjon. Then on...

Why the 'Y' Service?

Incarcerated in silent Set Room, shut out from the world behind wireless headphones, we listened for...

Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE Part 1

The archives of the Special Forces Club in London (13) and the SOE files (14) reveal that Denise and her...

WW2-Life in Kent

An old rotten Oak was dug out, following a great deal of chopping and rotten chips all over the garden......

Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE Part 4

Her job was multi-faceted and included briefing agents on the latest rationing regulations in France,...

Keyman - A Somewhat Soldier (Part 4)

The personnel at the reception camp were a mixed lot; apart from the Greeks there was an Austrian who had...

The American Major

3 tall, broad shouldered bull necked, long arms and legs, in fact a typical super man in body, but in...

Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE Part 2

Denise returned to work in France on the night of 2-3 March 1944 with Captain Robert Benoist, landed by an...

Captain Victor Gough

Helfen's arrival at “the Block” was a blessing to the British paratroopers, for with his...

Boys' Own Stuff in the Balkans 1941

Towards the end of 1940, Emmy received intelligence that the Germans were erecting telephone poles in...

From a Prison to a Palace!

The windows in the cells had small panes, two of which slid across to give some ventilation for the...

Top Secret - The Filter Room

"Must be under twenty-one years of age, with quick reactions, good atfigures - and female". These...

Did I Catch a Spy?

It was a lovely day and the window was wide open and this person announced in an impeccable County accent...

The Spy From The North: A Story About Eddie Chapman

It seems an unlikey tale but this was the man, Eddie Chapman who raided Odeon Cinemas in the thirties and...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 4 - Sabotage work of Major C V Clarke, 'Operation Josephine' raid on Pessac Pow

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part Four — Sabotage work of Major C. V. Clarke;...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 4 - Sabotage work of Major C V Clarke, 'Operation Josephine' raid on Pessac Pow

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part Four — Sabotage work of Major C. V. Clarke;...

My years at Bletchley Park – Station X

Memoirs of a Wartime Teenager

Here at home things were in the capable direction of Squadron Leader W D,Lea Rayner,as both Neilson Hutton...

Memories of a Sutton Girl [Mrs.Park]

1939 I was born in Sutton in Surrey saw a lot of the bombing in the docks, My father had his own...

Rescuing Madame De Gaulle

Thanks to a small number of important personal contacts, including Colonel Franck, my cousin was put in...

Special Operations Executive Station XIV at Briggens, Roydon

At Briggens, we occupied the cellars of this country house, while above ground and in the surrounding...

A Spy in the House

Our neighnours at no.100 were a middle aged couple,the husband a retired police detective.All households in...

An Enigmatic Tale

There were times when we didn't have electricity or gas and water had to be brought up in buckets, and...

Dropped into Occupied France..An SOE story

When the Germans invaded the Islands in 1940, most young Channelmen were already in England, and fighting...

The Jaywick Operation

A former Japanese fishing vessel, renamed the Krait, which had been captured off Singapore in December 1941...