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Special Operations Executive (SOE) In June 1940, a secret volunteer service was recruited to create havoc and to wage war behind enemy lines. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), formed by Minister of Economic Warfare, Hugh Dalton, was tasked by Churchill to ‘set Europe ablaze.’ Agents were trained, under the Head of Training and Operations, Colonel…
Jean Moulin became the face of the French resistance and a symbol of freedom. Across France there are schools, colleges and streets named in his honour. However outside of France he is relatively unknown. 1899-1938 Jean Moulin was born in 1899 in Béziers, Occitanie, to Antoine and Blanche Moulin. Moulin grew up in a Republican…
On 16th December 1944, German forces began a counter-offensive in the Ardennes forest that aimed at turning the tide for Germany. The attack, aimed to divide the Allied forces, cut off Allied use of the port of Antwerp and prevent them from reaching Germany. As the area around town of Bastogne in southern Belgium came…
A Penny For War Thoughs 