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Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445610418
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book RAF Tempsford written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the mysterious Tempsford Airfield.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445606903
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Most Secret Airfield written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the mysterious Tempsford airfield used to ferry secret agents into occupied Europe.
Author : Mike Osborne
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Defending Bedfordshire written by Mike Osborne and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, proximity to major routes\-\-\-the Great North Road, the Icknield Way, and Watling Street\-\-\-has made Bedfordshire strategically important. Iron Age hillforts occupied significant locations, and castles consolidated Norman control after 1066. In later medieval times, two major events occurred: in 1224, the siege of Bedford Castle marked Henry III’s attempt to reimpose royal authority after the chaos of John’s reign; and the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461 was a major defeat for the Yorkists. During the wars of the twentieth century, the county’s industrial base supported the armies fighting overseas. In the First World War, the county contributed significantly to the birth of the RAF as well as provided the base for the Home Defence armies. In the Second World War, its airfields despatched RAF and USAAF bombers over the continent, but the major activity was the secret war largely associated with the Bedford Triangle. After 1945, aeronautical research continued at RAF Thurleigh\/Twinwood Farm and electronic intelligence\-gathering was developed at Chicksands. \x27Defending Bedfordshire\x27 seeks to explain the significance of this dense concentration of military sites to be found in a relatively small county.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445604343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Women of RAF Tempsford written by Bernard O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Tempsford Women.
Author : Derwin Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351718339
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive written by Derwin Gregory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas’. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are relatively well known, few studies have explored the ‘backroom sections’ of this organisation. This book draws together the infrastructure developed to support an agent’s ‘journey’ from recruitment to despatch to the field. At the start of the Second World War there were few existing facilities established within the UK to support clandestine operations. As the conflict progressed, in parallel to learning the operational procedures of their trade, SOE also had to rapidly expand their support infrastructure around the world. The organisation could effectively support their agents only by establishing facilities dedicated to training, research and development, supply, transportation, communication, and command and control. By predominately focusing on the organisation’s ‘agent facing’ infrastructure, this book provides a backdrop to the brave men and women who conducted operations abroad. In addition, it gives an overview of the facilities in which SOE’s backroom staff lived and worked. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of archaeology, history and war studies.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291787305
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (917 download)
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 : Nigel S Atkins
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399079832
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe written by Nigel S Atkins and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe. When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartters crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchills son, Randolph. The crews last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943. Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups the officers, and the NCOs. The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944. The NCOs luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians. In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins traveled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above. From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.
Author : Colin Brown
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445651858
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Operation Big written by Colin Brown and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridgeshire country house at the centre of a secret mission to stop Hitler's A-Bomb
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447857313
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Grantchester Fossil Diggings written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470916916
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Orwell Fossil Diggings written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470926229
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Fossil Diggings in Sandy and Potton written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s a bed of 'coprolites', thought by some to be fossilised dinosaur droppings, was discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens. Rich in phosphate it was much in demand by the nation's manure manufacturers. By the mid-1860s it was being dug up across much of central Bedfordshire. This book investigates the social, economic and archaeological impact of the fossil diggings in Sandy and Potton, small market towns between Cambridge and Bedford.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447898176
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Comberton Fossil Diggings written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470941740
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Horningsea Fossil Diggings written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s a bed of 'coprolites', thought by some to be fossilised dinosaur droppings, was discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens. Rich in phosphate it was much in demand by the nation's manure manufacturers. By the 1860s it was being dug up across much of the county. This book investigates the social, economic and archaeological impact of the fossil diggings in Horningsea, a small, rural community northeast of Cambridge.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470915278
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Hauxton Fossil Diggings written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s a bed of 'coprolites', thought by some to be fossilised dinosaur droppings, was discovered in the Cambridgeshire fens. Rich in phosphate it was much in demand by the nation's manure manufacturers. By the 1860s it was being dug up across much of the county. This book investigates the social, economic and archaeological impact of the fossil diggings in Hauxton, a small rural community southwest of Cambridge.
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 147090991X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Harston Fossil Diggings written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244690545
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The BBC and the Pigeon Spies written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 16,000 pigeons were dropped into occupied Europe during the Second World War. Some were used by secret agents to send messages back to headquarters. Others were dropped into selected areas of France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark in the hope that people would complete the attached questionnaire and provided military, political, economic or other intelligence of value for the Allies. There were also requests for information on the reception and content of the BBC Overseas Service news. Many messages sent back requests that the BBC acknowledge receipt of the message. This book investigates the work of MI14, known as the Colomba Service, and for the first time sheds light on conditions in Occupied Europe described by extremely brave men and women who risked execution if found in possession of a pigeon. MI14 staff, decoded or translated messages and forwarded copies to the SOE, SIS, MI19, the War Office, RAF, Royal Navy, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Churchill, de Gaulle and the BBC.
Author : Natasha Lester
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 1538717271
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Paris Secret written by Natasha Lester and published by Forever. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn. Even if women aren't allowed in the Royal Air Force, Skye is determined to help the war effort. She's thrilled when it reunites her with her childhood soulmate, Nicholas. She's less thrilled to learn Nicholas is now engaged to an enigmatic Frenchwoman named Margaux Jourdan. Paris, 1947: Designer Christian Dior unveils his glamorous first collection to a world weary of war and grief. He names his debut fragrance Miss Dior in tribute to his beloved sister Catherine, who forged a friendship with Skye and Margaux through her work with the French Resistance. Present Day: Fashion conservator Kat Jourdan discovers a priceless collection of Dior gowns in her grandmother's vacant cottage. As she delves into the mystery of their origin, Kat begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about her beloved grandmother.
