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Forewords
This tentative of history of civilians and military agents
(BCRA, Commandos, JEDBURGHS, OSS, SAS, SIS, SOE, SUSSEX/OSSEX,
Sussex/Brissex/SIS & PROUST) infiltrated or exfiltrated during
the WWII into France, by parachute, by plane landings, by sea
landings and/or by crossing on foot the Spanish border via the
Pyrénées
This document, which needs to be completed and corrected, has
been prepared using the information available, not always reliable,
on the following internet websites and books available:
NB1: Highlighted in blue modifications/corrections made.
NB2: Highlighted in yellow more information needed.
ONLY THE FRENCH VERSION MAKES REFERENCE
This document, periodically revised, could be downloaded
from:
- The MM Park Museum website using this link:
http://www.mmpark.fr/index.php?p=sussex&ref=tableau%20des%20Infiltrations
- The Plan Sussex website using this link:
http://www.plan-sussex-1944.net/anglais/pdf/infiltrations_into_france.pdf
1. Mémoire des Hommes - Portal opening access to the various
databases of the Ministry of Armed French Forces:
https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/arkotheque/client/mdh/recherche_transversale/bases_nominatives.php?
2. National portal of French Archives:
https://francearchives.fr/
3. National Archives of Pierrefitte sur Seine with a part of
BCRA archives:
https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/cms/content/display.action?uuid=Accueil1RootUuid&onglet=1
- Cotes AG/3(2)/1 to AG/3(2)/605 (Microfilm 171 Mi 1 to 208)
4. The following French SHD websites give the references of
files related to networks, maquis and resistants (In French):
https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en (New SHD
website needing to have a personal account)
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/?q=content/conflits-et-op%C3%A9rations#overlay-context=content/exposition-honneur-aux-braves-la-croix-de-guerre%3Fq%3Dcontent/exposition-honneur-aux-braves-la-croix-de-guerre
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/?q=content/1940-1946-inventaire-des-archives-de-la-s%C3%A9rie-p
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_13P.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_REP_17P.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_REP_18P.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_REP_19P.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_28P2_BCRA_SECTION_CONTRE_ESPIONNAGE.doc.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_28P3_FRANCE%20COMBATTANTE-DOSSIERS%20GENERAUX.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_28P4_DOSSIERS_DES_AGENTS_DES_RESEAUX_2.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_28P5_BCRA_COLLECTION_MESSAGES.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_INV_28P11_BCRA-AGENTS-RESEAUX.pdf
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/?q=content/dossiers-administratifs-de-r%C3%A9sistants
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5. The Ordre de la Libération website:
http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/english/contenido1.php
The Order of the Liberation is France's second national Order
after the Legion of Honour, and was instituted by General De
Gaulle, Leader of the "Français Libres" - the Free French movement
- with Edict No. 7, signed in Brazzaville on November 16th,
1940.
6. History of Carpetbaggers (USAAF) partly available on Thomas
Ensminger’s website addresses:
http://www.801492.org/MainMenu.htm
http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Crewz.htm
I was informed that Thomas Ensminger passed away on the
03/05/2012. I like to underline the huge work performed as
historian by Thomas to keep alive the memory the Carpetbaggers’
history and their famous B24D modified and painted in glossy black.
RIP Thomas.
The USAAF Carpetbagger's mission was that of delivering supplies
and agents to resistance groups in the enemy occupied Western
European nations. Created in late 1943, their operations first flew
from Tempsford, then Alconbury and finally out of Station 179,
Harrington (9.0 km West of Kettering in Northamptonshire). Flying
at first as two squadrons, they were given Provisional status as a
Bombardment Group (801st) in late March 1944 just before they moved
to Harrington. In May of 1944 two more squadrons were added to the
group. In August of 1944, the group was redesignated as a formal
group (492nd).
Squadron designations were changed as well, becoming as follows
for the duration of the war:
- 36th BS changed to 856th BS
- 406th BS changed to 858th BS
- 788th BS changed to 859th BS
- 850th BS changed to 857th BS
Over five hundred members of the BCRA, Jedburghs, OSS, Proust,
SAS, SIS, SOE and Sussex agents were inserted by the Carpetbaggers
during the period of March 1944 through April of 1945.
Most of mission reports of Carpetbaggers’ crews can be
downloaded from the Thomas Ensminger’s huge data bank
(http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Crewz.htm).
NB: The whole Carpetbaggers’crew mission reports were kindly
provided by Thomas Ensminger.
There is a Carpetbaggers museum located near Harrington
(Northamptonshire – Great Britain):
http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/CarpetbaggerMuseumHomePage.htm
7. History of the RAF squadrons:
The two Bob Body’s websites related to RAF 138 and 161 Squadrons
on website addresses:
http://www.tempsford-squadrons.info/
http://www.161squadron.org/
There were two RAF No 138 and 161 Special Duties Squadrons based
at Tempsford airfield (3.7 km north east of Sandy, Bedfordshire).
Both were involved in these highly secret operations, that ranged
over all of enemy occupied Europe, dropping agents or supplies.
Losses were very high, with up to one aircraft per week being lost
at some points during the war. Missions were concentrated on the
"moon nights" of each month at the beginning, where a full moon
allowed for better night vision for the pilots. Since 1943,
location device Rebecca (Plane) / Eureka (DZ),
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060003707 ,was used
whatever the weather.
NB : Some mission reports of RAF 138, 161 and 1419 Sqn were
kindly provided by Bob Body.
NB2 : Steven Kippax kindly provided some archives (Air 40/2659 –
Air resources made available to SIS) concerning the 106 SIS pick-up
operations carried out by RAF 161 Squadron.
NB3: Mail bags fastened to an horizontal cable located at 2
metre heigh were pickep up by Lysanders by means of hook during
special night operations called MPU (Mail Pick Up)
NB4: In December 1943, RAF 138 and 161 squadrons were joined by
214 and 617; in February 1944 by 90 and 149; in March by 75, 199,
295*, 296*, 297* and 298*; and in April by 570*, 644*, 190* and
299* in which month USAAF units also started Special Duties. Units
marked* were part of 38 Group and operated in pairs:- 190+620,
196+299, 298+644, 295+570 and 296+297.
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The Ron McKeon’s website, taken over by Lee Miller in August
2015, describes the history of the RAF 624 Squadron operating from
Blida (Algeria):
http://www.624squadron.org/missions.html
Ron McKeon passed away on 25/07/2015. I like to underline the
huge work performed by Ron to let us know the anonymous exploits of
the RAF 624 Squadron crews.
This site has now an online database (A small and worthy
participation fee of 10£ is asked to support the logistics to run
this website) periodically updated.
This site still under upgrade work is not operational.
The Bruneau Lecaplain’s website dedicated to RAF 38 Group and
RAF 298 & 644 Squadrons:
http://www.raf38group.org/
NB1 : RAF 38 Group included: RAF Brize Norton (296 & 297
Sqn, Albemarle), RAF Fairford (190 & 620 Sqn, Short Stirling),
RAF Harwell (295 & 570 Sqn, Albemarle), RAF Keevil (196 &
299 Sqn, Short Stirling) & RAF Tarrant Rushton (298 & 644
Sqn, Halifax modified to drop SAS jeeps)
NB2 : 38 Group dropped SAS, SOE F & SOE RF agents from
beginning of June 1944.
Bill Pogson’s forum « Operation: Dark of the Moon” dedicated to
RAF 148 Squadron operating from Brindisi (Italy) then Calvi
(Corsica):
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/operationdarkofthemoon/info
Nicolas Livingstone’s website “Before Tempsford” giving an
online history of the Royal Air Force’s early operations to insert
clandestine SOS & SIS agents into Nazi-occupied Europe between
August 1940 and March 1942.
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/
8. The huge Kelvin Youngs’ site, with several data bases,
dedicated to aircrews shot or missing during their missions :
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/homepage.html
9. The David Portier’s site FFL-SAS dedicated to the Free French
SAS
http://lerot.org/joomla25/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=677&lang=EN
NB1: David Portier helped me to up-date some SAS
infiltrations.
NB2 : There is an association called AFPSAS
(http://www.afpsas.org/)
10. History of Jedburghs available on following website
addresses:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Jedburgh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jedburgh
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/lewis.pdfhttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedburgh
http://web.archive.org/web/20060421211454/freespace.virgin.net/arthur.brown2/index.htm
The name JEDBURGH comes from a small town of Scotland. JEDBURGH
was a special forces operation carried out by the Allied during
WWII, which aimed to coordinate the action of the Resistance with
the general plans of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary
Forces (SHAEF) and to provide weapons and training to the
Resistance, in France, in Belgium and in the Netherlands, in order
to prevent the German to reinforce the Normandy coasts at the time
of D-Day. Men of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), of
the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and of Free French
Bureau Central de Renseignements and d’Action (BCRA) as well as
soldiers of the various armies of the countries concerned (France,
Belgium, Netherlands) were parachuted in uniform (Some teams were
dropped in civilian clothes such as Arnold Team), by teams of
three, behind the German lines, to lead actions of sabotage and
guerrilla against the Germans, and to coordinate actions of the
Resistance.
About 100 Jedburgh teams were dropped into France, Belgium and
Holland between June and December 1944.
Jed Nationalities dispatched into France:
British: 91 Jed
French: 108 Jed
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USA: 77 Jed
Canadian: 2 Jed
The Jedburgh Teams had in Europe:
- 14 members killed in action.
- 5 members dead from injuries, shot when prisoners or by
accident.
- 3 members killed due to bad dropping or parachute failure.
- 11 members severely injured during fighting.
- 4 members injured due to bad dropping.
- 4 prisoners who escaped.
11. The Tripartite SUSSEX Plan (US/OSS, GB/MI6 and FR/BCRA) and
Bipartite PROUST Plan (US/OSS and FR/BCRA)
http://www.plan-sussex-1944.net/
http://mmpark.fr/index.php?p=sussex
Dominique Soulier is at the origin of the memory work started 28
years ago (1991) in memory of the agents of the plan Sussex 1944
and of his father Georges Soulier radio of the team Sussex «Vis»
(Ossex/OSS).
He mets for several years the actors of these missions and
collected a great deal of information, memories and documents.
Secretary of the Sussex Plan Association until the disappearance of
the last agents, he is the creator of the site plan Sussex, of the
museum «Collections Sussex 1944» exhibited at MM PARK in La
Wantzenau. Also author of two books dedicated to these secret
missions.
Patrick Habersack-Bechtel grandson of the Sussex agent William
Bechtel pseudo Louis Bonnet & Pierre Tillet son of the Sussex
agent Michel Tillet pseudo Marcel Treville provide invaluable help
for the knowledge of the agents of the Sussex and Proust Plans as
well as their secrets missions. Thanks to their hard work and the
regularly updated table « Tentative of History of WWII
Infiltrations into France 1940-1945 », the very secret missions
Sussex and Proust come out of the shadows. Many individuals and
families can begin more “personal” research as a result of this
work
Sussex Teams (January - September 1944): SUSSEX Plan was an
intelligence operation in World War II in which men from the French
Intelligence Bureau Central de Renseignements and d'Action (BCRA)
were dropped into France from January to September 1944. (See
Memories of a Free French Secret Agent written by Gilbert Renault
aka Rémy aka Roulier).
Commander Kenneth Cohen for SIS (England), Colonel Francis
Pickens Miller for OSS (USA) and Gilbert Renault (Rémy) for BCRA
(France) were in charge of the SUSSEX Plan.
Each of the 54 SUSSEX teams (29 OSSEX, 25 BRISSEX teams) of an
officer and a WT operator. (118 men and 2 women) to supply update,
independent, reliable and accurate information to the Allied Head
Quarters in order to take the relevant decisions.
After the war the surviving agents used to meet for a monthly
reunion dinner at Madame Goubillon's café, located 8 rue Tournefort
in the 5th arrondissement, which they painted and renamed “Café du
Network Sussex”. Sadly the cafe is no more, Madame Goubillon died
in the 1980s and the premises were transformed into a piano bar. In
1990, however, the mayor of the fifth arrondissement unveiled a
plaque commemorating the role the cafe and its owner played during
the war.
(http://www.aerosteles.net/fiche.php?code=paris-sussex)
The volume 3 “Secret Intelligence Branch: SUSSEX” of roll n°4 of
« History of the London Office of the OSS » ref : M-1623 of NARA
gave some information concerning the Plan SUSSEX, but unfortunately
the Sussex/Brissex/SIS agents’ reports are missing (pages 241 to
479). US Archives NARA provided some mission reports of
Sussex/Ossex/OSS teams.
Some Sussex/Ossex/OSS agents have a personal file available from
NARA Database, using the search engine:
https://catalog.archives.gov/.
Contact: National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
(Military) (RD-DC-2-MIL), National Archives at College Park - 8601
Adelphi Road - College Park, MD 20740-6001 - Phone: 301-837-3510 /
Fax: 301-837-1752 - Email: [email protected]
2 Pathfinders teams and 52 Sussex teams (25 BRISSEX/SIS & 29
OSSEX/OSS) were dropped from February to September 1944.
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Sussex Badge n°34 (34th drop) of Georges Soulier pseudo Gérard
Boudemange (Vis Team)
The WT operators of Sussex/Brissex teams reported to SIS station
STS 53a or STS 53b and the WT operators of Sussex/Ossex to OSS
station Victor.
The "Carpetbaggers" infiltrated about 49 SUSSEX agents and the
RAF 59. Most of Carpetbaggers’ operations had names of car
manufacturers: Ansaldo, Bentley, Benz, Cord, Desoto, Ellis,
Lincoln, Plymouth, etc.
The Sussex Teams had 15 members killed or missing including a
woman Evelyne Clopet.
Jacques Voyer received the Cross of the Liberation.
Proust PLan (February – September 1944): An auxiliary joint
operation only conducted by French BCRA and US OSS to the Sussex
plan to build up a reserve pool of agents for any unforeseen
exigencies of the post D-Day period and eventually became
operational.
Each Proust agent was trained as W/T operator and intelligence
observer agent.
The volume 4 “Secret Intelligence Branch - PROUST” of roll n°4
of « History of the London Office of the OSS » ref: M-1623 of NARA
gave some information concerning the Plan PROUST, but unfortunately
the agents’ reports are missing (pages 51 to 188).
The PROUST missions were: Driver/Ascain, Monkey, Girafe, Midiron
(sub-missions: Norman, Noël, Potage, Noir, Congé, Poil, Jument and
Maréchal), Jambon, Mirnaloy, Voyageur, Bebe, Chat, Image, Marquise
and Marcel.
Proust Badge n°21 of Jacques Suissa pseudo Jacques Grenier aka
Gravet aka Saniette
The WT operators of Sussex/Ossex reported to OSS Victor station
(NARA M1623-Roll1-Target 3-Volume 3 - Station Victor)
The "Carpetbaggers" dropped forty-six PROUST Project
intelligence agents into France for SI/London.
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NB: The very numerous and extremely rare Sussex and Proust
collections can be seen in the new museum MM PARK (Military Museum
Park).
This museum is situated in La Wantzenau (12 km North of
Strasbourg), presents on 7000m2 a very big variety of artefacts and
equipments of among which 120 military and armoured vehicles,
uniforms, individual and collective weapons, artillery and also a
renovated Luftwaffe 20 m, U-Boot coning tower, underwater mine, or
more, visits of an observation Atlantic Wall bell via an
underground corridor.
MM PARK is the biggest collection of Europe dedicated to the
Second World War. It was officially inaugurated on the
04/03/2017.
http://mmpark.fr/index.php?p=sussex
12. The Steven Kippax’s website dedicated to Special Operations
Executive (SOE) (This is a restricted group)
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/specialoperationsexecutive/info
This Group is designed to share and disseminate information of
the Special Operations Executive during WWII.
Special Operations Executive (SOE): The Special Operations
Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street
Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of spies, was a
World War II organization. It was initiated by Winston Churchill
and Hugh Dalton on the 19/07/1940 to conduct warfare by means other
than direct military engagement.
The organisation was formed out of three existing secret
departments:
o Section D, a sub-section of the Secret Intelligence Service
(SIS, aka MI6) commanded by Major Lawrence Grand;
o A department of the War Office known as MI R headed by Major
J. C. Holland;
o Department EH, the propaganda organisation called (from
Electra House, its headquarters), run by Sir Campbell Stuart. SOE
directly employed or controlled just over 13,000 people. It is
estimated that, worldwide, SOE supported or supplied about a
million operatives.
SOE's operations in France were directed by six London-based
country sections:
o AMF Section was established in Algiers during the latter part
of 1942 to operate into Southern France.
o DF Section was responsible for establishing escape routes.
o EU/P which dealt with the Polish community in France
o F Section was under British control (Colonel Maurice
Buckmaster). In France, there were 95 circuits “Buck”. By the terms
of an agreement made with De Gaulle SOE F could not recruit French
agents. (Buckmaster Maurice – They Fought Alone – page 95)
o RF Section (Cptaine Erik Piquet-Wicks replaced by James
Hutchinson since August 1942 then by Bickham Sweet-Escott since
Autumn 1943 then by LH Dismore, helped by Forest Yeo-Thomas) was
linked to General De Gaulle's Free French government in exile. Most
native French agents served in RF.
o Jedburgh teams.
SOE was formed to “co-ordinate, to inspire, to control and to
assist the nationals of the oppressed countries who must themselves
be the direct participants”.
From 1941 to 1945, SOE organized about 3733 parachute landings
and 81 pick-up operations (Lysander, Hudson or Dakota) into
France:
- About 470 SOE agents, including 39 women, were sent out into
France. Among Section F, a monument in Valençay is dedicated to 104
of whom were killed in action or executed (13 women), 30 escaped
and 12 were released. They were “closely harnessed to the military
effort” and “played a very considerable part in our complete and
final victory.”
- 5 007 000 kg of equipment including 104 536 Sten submachine
guns, 409 224 grenades and 307 023 kg of explosives were
dropped.
SOE F section disbanded on January 15, 1946, with many of its
agents moving to MI6.
SOE was known publicly by a cover name: the Inter-Services
Research Bureau (ISRB)
The SOE F Section Memorial of Valençay (Indre - France) was
inaugurated on 6th May 1991, the fiftieth anniversary of the
despatch of F Section's first agent to France, by Monsieur André
Méric, Secretary of State for Veteran Affairs, in the presence of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Valençay monument
commemorates by name 91 men and 13 women, all agents of F Section
of S.O.E., who lost their lives - most of them in concentration
camps - as a result of their work with the French Resistance.
NB1: When possible, information given in this document was
compared with the data given in the M.R.D FOOT’s book “SOE in
France – An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations
Executive in France 1940 – 1944” (2004 Edition).
NB2: When possible, information given in this document was
compared with data given in the Hugh VERITY’s book “We landed by
Moonlight" (2000 Edition – reprinted 2013 - Crecy).
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NB3: Most of the KEW archives related to SOE (Mission reports,
Agents’ PF, etc) were kindly provided by Steven KIPPAX.
13. F-Section of SOE available on David M Harrison’s website
address:
http://members.tripod.com/soe_french/
14. Websites dedicated to Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
OSS Society website (OSS PERSONNEL FILES - RG 226 ENTRY 224)
:
https://www.osssociety.org/personnelrecords.html
WWII - William J. Donovan’website:
http://intellit.org/wwii_folder/wwiioss_folder/osstoc.html
NARA website with the list of OSS agents (Record Group RG 226 -
Entry 224):
https://catalog.archives.gov/
CIA website:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/ (Seach engine)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-history/oss-catalogue/index.html
NB : The names of USAAF Carpetbaggers and Sussex Plan are
mentioned on the reverse of the OSS WWII Congressional Gold
Medal.
15. Michel Augeard’s website of the Association des Amis de WT
Londres dedicated to BBC messages:
http://www.messages-personnels-bbc-39-45.fr/
16. Infiltrations by aircraft operations in the Haute-Saône
Department
Additional infiltration informations by aircraft operations in
the Haute-Saône Department were found in Jean-Claude Grandhay’s
book « La Haute-Saône dans la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale » (ERTI
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17. Websites dedicated to Escape Lines:
Keith Janes’ website dedicated to Escape Line Pat O’Leary and
feluccas Seawolf & Seadog sea operations.
http://www.conscript-heroes.com/index.html
Bruce Bolinger’s Escape Line website gives links to websites
dedicated to Escape Lines:
http://wwii-netherlands-escape-lines.com/
Jeanne Huot’s website (Daughter of Paul François Campinchi aka
François) dedicated to Shelburn escape line :
http://evasionaviateurs.free.fr/index.php
Escape Line Comète :
http://www.evasioncomete.org/aPrincipal.html
http://www.cometeline.org/cometaviateurpasse.html (Gives the
list of people helped by Comète)
Escape Line Possum :
http://www.possumline.net/
The Escape Line Memorial Society’s website (ELMS) :
http://www.ww2escapelines.co.uk/
18. Websites related to commemorative plates and monuments
Aérosteles: The French website related to aviation commemorative
plates and monuments:
http://www.aerosteles.net/resultat.php
Plaques Commémoratives: The French website related to
commemorative plates and monuments:
http://www.plaques-commemoratives.org/
19. Website of former intelligence, counterintelligence, special
forces, and security officers
http://www.aassdn.org/
20. CNRS & Paris 1 University’s Website « Le Maitron »
dedicated people shot, executed & slaughtered in France 1940 à
1944
http://maitron-fusilles-40-44.univ-paris1.fr/
21. Archives:
The following archives were reviewed: - French National Archives
- 3AG2/ 1 to 605 – microfilm 171 Mi 1 to 208 - BCRA - French
National Archives – 3AG/461 & microfilm AN 171 Mi 178 –
BCRA/SUSSEX - French National Archives – Microfilms AN 46 Mi rolls
1 to 19 - French National Archives “WWII archives – French
Resistance” could be downloaded from the website using these
links:
https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/consultationIR.action?udId=root&consIr=&irId=FRAN_IR_053870&frontIr=&auSeinIR=false
o 72AJ/35/I. Généralités o 72AJ/35/II. Réseau Action o 72AJ/35/III.
Agence d'information et de documentation (AID) o 72AJ/35/IV. Réseau
Agir o 72AJ/35/V. SR Air o 72AJ/35/VI. Réseau Ajax et sous-réseaux
Candide, Zadig et Micromégas
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o 72AJ/35/VII. Réseaux AK-AK et AJ-AJ o 72AJ/35/VIII. Réseau
Alliance o 72AJ/35/IX. Groupe Alouette o 72AJ/35/X. Groupe d'Amiens
o 72AJ/35/XI. Réseau Andalousie o 72AJ/35/XII. Réseau Andromède o
72AJ/35/XIII. Mouvement "Les Archers" o 72AJ/36/I. Mouvement "Les
Ardents" o 72AJ/36/II à 72 AJ/36/III. Armée secrète o 72AJ/36/IV à
72AJ/36/V. Armée des Volontaires (AV) o 72AJ/36/VI. Réseau
d'Artagnan o 72AJ/36/VII. Réseau Azur o 72AJ/37/I. Bataillons de la
mort (BDLM) o 72AJ/37/II. Réseau Béarn o 72AJ/37/III. Réseau Abbé
Blanc o 72AJ/37/IV. Réseau Bordeaux-Loupiac o 72AJ/37/V. Réseau
Bourgogne o 72AJ/37/VI. Réseau Brandy o 72AJ/37/VII. Réseau Brutus
o 72AJ/38/I à 72AJ/38/V. Opérations aériennes du Bureau central de
renseignements et d'action (BCRA) o 72AJ/39/I à 72AJ/40/III.
Réseaux Buckmaster (Section F du Special Operations Executive, SOE)
o 72AJ/41/I à 72AJ/41/II. Réseau Carte o 72AJ/42/I. Ceux de la
Libération (CDLL) o 72AJ/42/II à 72AJ/42/IV. Ceux de la Résistance
(CDLR) o 72AJ/43/I. Confédération française des travailleurs
chrétiens (CFTC) o 72AJ/43/II à 72AJ/43/III. Confédération générale
du Travail (CGT) o 72AJ/43/IV. Chaîne Duvernois o 72AJ/43/V. Groupe
Cochet o 72AJ/44/I à 72AJ/44/IV. Réseau Cohors-Asturies o 72AJ/45/I
à 72AJ/45/II. COMAC (Comité d'action militaire du Conseil national
de la Résistance) o 72AJ/45/III. COMIDAC (Comité d'action en
France) o 72AJ/45/IV. Ligne Comète o 72AJ/45/V. Comité d'action
contre la déportation (CAD) o 72AJ/45/VI. Comité général d'études
(CGE) o 72AJ/45/VII. Comité national des écrivains (CNE) o
72AJ/46/I à 72AJ/48/V. Mouvement Combat o 72AJ/49/I à 72AJ/49/II.
Confrérie Notre-Dame o 72AJ/49/III. Conseil national de la
Résistance (CNR) o 72AJ/49/IV. Le Coq enchaîné o 72AJ/49/V. La
Corse résistante o 72AJ/49/VI. Réseau Côtre o 72AJ/49/VII. Réseau
Coty o 72AJ/49/VIII. Réseau Curie o 72AJ/50/I à 72AJ/50/V. Défense
de la France o 72AJ/51/I. Réseau Delbo-Phénix o 72AJ/51/II. Réseau
Dupleix (SR) o 72AJ/51/III. École des cadres du maquis —
Volontaires de la Liberté o 72AJ/51/IV. École des cadres d'Uriage o
72AJ/51/V. Réseau Électre-Bouleau o 72AJ/51/VI. Réseau Éleuthère o
72AJ/51/VII. Groupe d'Estienne d'Orves (Network Nemrod) o
72AJ/51/VIII. Réseau Étoile o 72AJ/51/IX. Réseau Famille Martin o
72AJ/51/X. Réseau Félix o 72AJ/51/XI. Francam o 72AJ/51/XII. La
France continue o 72AJ/51/XIII. France d'abord o 72AJ/51/XIV.
France toujours o 72AJ/52/I et 72AJ/52/II. Réseau franco-polonais
F2 o 72AJ/53/I à 72AJ/54/III. Forces françaises de l'Intérieur
(FFI) o 72AJ/55/I à 72AJ/55/II. Mouvement Franc-Tireur o 72AJ/56/I
à 72AJ/56/III. Francs-tireurs et partisans français (FTPF) o
72AJ/57/I. Franc-Maçonnerie o 72AJ/57/II. Front national o
72AJ/57/III. Front national Police o 72AJ/57/IV et 72AJ/57/V. Front
national universitaire o 72AJ/57/VI. Forces unies de la jeunesse
patriotique (FUJP)
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o 72AJ/57/VII. Groupe d'auto-défense des brigades spéciales de
la Préfecture de Police (GAD) o 72AJ/57/VIII. Réseau Gallia o
72AJ/58/I. Groupe Gambetta o 72AJ/58/II. Réseau Gilbert o
72AJ/58/III. Centrale Gulliver-Parsifal o 72AJ/58/IV. Réseau
Hauet-Vildé o 72AJ/58/V. Groupe Heurteaux o 72AJ/58/VI. Réseau
Hi-Hi o 72AJ/58/VII. Honneur et Patrie o 72AJ/58/VIII. Honneur de
la Police o 72AJ/58/IX. Réseau Hunter o 72AJ/58/X. Institut Pasteur
o 72AJ/58/XI. Mouvement l'Insurgé o 72AJ/58/XII et 72AJ/58/XIII.
Isolés o 72AJ/58/XIV. Réseau Jade-Fitzroy o 72AJ/58/XV. Réseau
Jean-Baptiste o 72AJ/59/I. Jeunes chrétiens combattants (JCC) o
72AJ/59/II. Jeune République o 72AJ/59/III. Réseau Johny o
72AJ/59/IV. SR Kléber et sous-réseau Marco o 72AJ/59/V à
72AJ/59/VI. Mouvement Libération-Nord o 72AJ/59/VII. Libérer et
Fédérer o 72AJ/59/VIII. Libertés — Notre Révolution o 72AJ/59/IX.
Libre Patrie o 72AJ/59/X. Groupe Lord Denys o 72AJ/59/XI. Mouvement
Lorraine o 72AJ/60/I à 72AJ/60/IV. Mouvement Libération-Sud o
72AJ/61/I à 72AJ/62/VII. Libération de Paris o 72AJ/63/I. Groupe
Maintenir o 72AJ/63/II. Réseau Mane Thecel Pharès o 72AJ/63/III.
Réseau Manipule o 72AJ/63/IV. Maquis o 72AJ/63/V. Réseaux Marathon
et Mousquetaire o 72AJ/63/VI. Réseau Marc Breton o 72AJ/63/VII.
Réseau Marceau o 72AJ/63/VIII. Réseau Marco-Polo o 72AJ/63/IX. SR
Marine — Réseau Édouard o 72AJ/63/X. Réseaux Mécano, Marie-Odile et
Martial-Armand o 72AJ/63/XI. Réseau Mithridate o 72AJ/63/XII.
Réseau Morhange o 72AJ/63/XIII. Réseau Mounier o 72AJ/63/XIV.
Réseau Mousquetaire-Grenadier o 72AJ/63/XV. Mouvement gaulliste
républicain — Délivrance o 72AJ/63/XVI. Mouvement ouvrier français
(MOF) o 72AJ/64/I à 72AJ/64/II. Mouvement de Libération nationale
(MLN) o 72AJ/64/III et 72AJ/64/IV. Mouvement national des
prisonniers de guerre et déportés (MNPGD) o 72AJ/64/V. Mouvement
national révolutionnaire o 72AJ/64/VI. Mouvement républicain de
Libération, devenu Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) o
72AJ/65/I à 72AJ/65/V. Mouvements unis de Résistance (MUR) o
72AJ/66/I à 72AJ/66/IV. Musée de l'Homme o 72AJ/66/V. Noyautage des
administrations publiques (NAP) o 72AJ/66/VI et 72AJ/66/VII.
Organisation de Résistance de l'Armée (ORA) o 72AJ/66/VIII. Réseau
Orion o 72AJ/66/IX. Les Négriers o 72AJ/67/I à 72AJ/68/IX.
Organisation civile et militaire (OCM) o 72AJ/69/I. Pantagruel o
72AJ/69/II à 72AJ/69/IV. Parti communiste o 72AJ/69/V. Parti
radical o 72AJ/70/I à 72AJ/70/V. Parti socialiste o 72AJ/71/I et
72AJ/71/II. Passage des Pyrénées (évasions de France, internements
en Espagne) o 72AJ/71/III. Réseau Pat O'Leary o 72AJ/71/IV. Patriam
Recuperare o 72AJ/71/V. Réseau Pearl Harbour o 72AJ/71/VI. Centrale
Phratrie — Service de sondages et statistiques (SSS) o 72AJ/71/VII.
Réseau Phalanx o 72AJ/71/VIII. Réseau Plutus o 72AJ/71/IX. Police
et Patrie
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o 72AJ/71/X. Réseau Praxitèle o 72AJ/71/XI. Service de
protection des Juifs (devenu Mouvement national contre le racisme)
— Protection des étrangers
(abbé Alexandre Glasberg) o 72AJ/72/I à 72AJ/72/VII. Généralités
sur la Résistance o 72AJ/72/VIII. Mouvement Résistance o 72AJ/73/I.
Résistance des avocats o 72AJ/73/II à 72AJ/73/VI. Résistance
chrétienne o 72AJ/73/VII à 72AJ/73/IX. Résistance étrangère o
72AJ/74/I à 72AJ/75/III. Résistance-Fer o 72AJ/76/I à 72AJ/77/V.
Résistance PTT o 72AJ/78/I à 72AJ/79/III. Résistance universitaire
o 72AJ/80/I. Groupe Ricou (groupe de l'École des surintendants) o
72AJ/80/II. Réseau Ronsard o 72AJ/80/III. Réseau Rossi o
72AJ/80/IV. Groupe de la rue de Lille o 72AJ/80/V. Réseau Sabot —
Résistance belge en France o 72AJ/80/VI. Réseau Saint-Jacques o
72AJ/80/VII. Comité médical de la Résistance — Service de santé de
la Résistance o 72AJ/80/VIII. Réseau Shelburn o 72AJ/80/IX. Réseau
Sosies o 72AJ/80/X. Réseau Stuart o 72AJ/80/XI. Réseau Tartane o
72AJ/80/XII. Union des cadres industriels de la France combattante
(UCIFC) o 72AJ/80/XIII. Union des femmes françaises (UFF) o
72AJ/80/XIV. Vagabond bien-aimé o 72AJ/81/I. Groupe Valmy o
72AJ/81/II. Réseau Vaneau o 72AJ/81/III. Réseau Var o 72AJ/81/IV.
Réseau Vélite-Thermopyles o 72AJ/81/V. Corps franc Vengeance o
72AJ/81/VI. Groupes Veny o 72AJ/81/VII. Réseau Vermillon o
72AJ/81/VIII. Réseau Vic o 72AJ/81/IX. Mouvement La Voix du Nord o
72AJ/81/X. Volontaires de la Liberté o 72AJ/81/XI. Réseau Yannick o
72AJ/81/XII. Réseau Zéro-France o 72AJ/82/I à 72AJ/82/IV. Services
spéciaux — Activités du commandant Paul Paillole o 72AJ/83/I à
72AJ/86/I. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (with reports of
Massingham Jeds & OSS/OG) o 72AJ/87/I à 72AJ/89/I. Résistance
et combats du Vercors
- French National Archives - References of PF of French
resistants (SHD GR 16 P) can be downloaded from this link:
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/?q=content/dossiers-administratifs-de-résistants
- French National Archives - French References of PF of French
network agents (SHD GR 28 P 4) can be downloaded from this link:
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SHDGR_28P4.pdf
- TNA KEW - HS 07/11 – Special Air Operations in Mediterranean
Theatre - TNA KEW - HS 07/127 to HS07/133 – SOE History 90A –
Volumes V1 to V5 & volumes V6 part VP1 & VP2 - TNA KEW - HS
07/246 to HS 07/252 – SOE War Diary - SOE RF Section - TNA KEW - HS
08/145 – Air successful SOE operations (Feb 1944 – May 1945) - TNA
KEW - HS 08/148 – Operational grounds records F & RF - TNA KEW
- HS 08/149 – SOE operation record book - TNA KEW - HS 08/433 &
HS 08/434 - Special duty operations in Europe - TNA KEW - HS 08/999
– SOE Bible - SOE F Section - TNA KEW - HS 08/1000 to HS 08/1001 –
SOE Bible - SOE RF Section - TNA KEW - HS 9/450/7 – Henri Drouilh -
TNA KEW - HS 9/978/2 – Stanislaw Makowski - TNA KEW - HS 9/1362/2 –
Simon André - TNA KEW - HS 9/1435 & 22666/A – Szabo Violette
Reine Elisabeth - TNA KEW – WO 204/1947 – SPOC – SITREP- June 1944
– August 1944 - TNA KEW – HS 13 – SOE – Nominal Index French Cardex
- Francis Pickens MILLER’s collection – Box 4 – Folders 4 to 22 –
SUSSEX papers. - NARA - Records of OSS - Record Group 226
(1940-1947) - Entry 210 - Boxes 1-538 - Location: 250 64/21/1. CIA
Accession: 79-
00332A - NARA - Office of Strategic Services Records (Record
Group 226) - Glossary of Initialisms, Abbreviations, and
Acronyms
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/oss/glossary.html
- NARA - M1623 - Roll 4 – Vol 3 – SI Branch - SUSSEX - NARA - M1623
- Roll 4 – Vol 4 – SI Branch - PROUST - NARA - M1623 - Roll 7 –
Books II to VIII – SOE F Section
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- NARA - M1623 - Roll 7 – Books IX to XII – SOE RF Section -
NARA - M1623 - Roll 7 –Book XIII – SOE DF Section - NARA - M1623 -
Roll 8 - Volume 4 – Books I to VI – Jedburghs - NARA - M1623 - Roll
9 - Vol 4A – Operational Groups. - NARA - M1623 - Roll 9 – Vol 5 –
Books I to III – SOE Army Staff - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 –Vol 11 –
SOE Bibliographies - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 – Vol 12 – Basic
documents - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 – Vol 13 – Book II -
Miscelleanous - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 – Vol 1 – Strategic Services
Officer - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 – Vol 1 – Book II - Strategic
Services Officer - NARA - M1623 - Roll 10 – Vol 3 – Basic Documents
- NARA - Records of OSS - Record Group 226 – Entry 210 – Folders
WN001127 to WN001129, WN001131 to WN001152 &
WN000388 – SUSSEX Plan, Sussex/Ossex/OSS agents & Mission
reports. - RAF - Air 20/8252 - 138 & 161 Squadrons – Daily
Operations - RAF - Air 20/8293 – 161 Squadron Diary - RAF - Air
20/8298 – 161 Squadron Ops Reports – July 1944 – May 1945 - RAF -
Air 20/8348 – 161 Squadron – Night Pick Up Instructions - RAF - Air
20/8459 - 138 SD Squadron – Diary - RAF - Air 20/8460 – 161
Squadron Diary – 27 February 1942 – 7 September 1944 - RAF - Air
20/8461 – 161 Squadron Diary – 10 July 1943 – 3 May 1945 - RAF -
Air 20/8498 - 161 Squadron – SD Operations – 26 February 1943 – 24
July 1943 - RAF - Air 20/8884 – Maps and photos of LZ - RAF - Air
27/956 - 138 Squadron (ORB) - RAF - Air 27/996 - 148 Squadron (ORB)
- RAF - Air 27/1068 - 161 Squadron (ORB) - RAF - AIR 27/1167 - 196
Squadron - RAF - AIR 27/1649 - 1652 - 298 Squadron - RAF - Air
27/2142 - 624 Squadron (ORB) - RAF - 27/2159 - 2161 - 644 Squadron
- RAF - Air 40/2356 - Index Grounds - RAF - Air 40/2659 - RAF
resources made available to SIS - RAF - 161 Squadron – Diary - RAF
- SAS & SOE Flight Logs - Service Historique de la Défence
(SHD) Vincennes – 17P226 - SUSSEX - USAAF Carpetbagger Operation
logs & Mission Reports - Station 179 Harrington (Thomas
Ensminger data base) downloadable:
http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Crewz.htm. - Francis Pickens
MILLER’s collection – Box 4 – Folders 4 to 22 – SUSSEX papers -
Brigadier General Monro MacCloskey – The USAAF 885th Bombardment
Squadron (Heavy – special) in World War II - Volume 1
(April 1944 to March 1945) & Volume 2 (April to 6 September
1945).
22. Bibliographies 23. Abrutat David – VANGUARD - The True Story
of the Reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions Behind D-Day (Naval
Institute
Press – 2019) - Aglan Alya – Mémoires Résistantes – Histoire du
Réseau Jade-Fitzroy (1940-1944) (Editions du Cerf – 1994) -
Albertelli Sébastien – Les Services Secrets du Général De Gaulle –
Le BCRA 1940 – 1944 (Editions Perrin – 2011) - Allan Stuart –
Commando Country (National Museums Scotland – 2009) - Amicale des
Réseaux Action de la France Combattante – Les réseaux Action de la
France Combattante (Edition 1986) –
electronic file (Edition 2008) could be downloaded from the
website :
http://www.fondationresistance.org/pages/accueil/les-reseaux-action-france-combattante_publication6.htm.
- Amicale des Réseaux de la Section F du SOE Buckmaster - Comité
d’Action de la Résistance (CAR) - Bulletins trimestriels
d’information et de liaison « Libre Résistance n°1 (2000) à 24
(2008) » (Ad’Hoc Plaisir).
- Ayral Xavier Jean Reyes - Héroïsme: Jean Ayral, Compagnon de
la Libération - Histoire et Carnets de guerre de Jean Ayral (18
juin 1940 - 20 août 1944) – (L’Harmattan – 2013)
- Bertram Anthony & Barbara – The Secret of Bignor Manor –
Spie & Agents by Moonlight in Sussex (Jerome Bertram - Lulu.com
– 2014)
- de la Barre de Nanteuil Général– SHD – Historique des Unités
Combattantes de la Résistance (1940 – 1944) - Biddiscombe Perry –
The SS Hunter Battalions – The Hidden History of the Nazi
Resistance Movement 1944-45 (The History
Press – 01/05/2013) - Bines Jeffrey - The Polish Country Section
of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946: A British
Perspective – Thesis could
be downloaded using this link
https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/929/1/z%20Thesis.pdf -
Body Robert – Runways to Freedom – The Special Duties Squadrons of
RAF Tempsford (Lulu – 17/04/2016) - Boisnier François & Raymond
Muelle - Commando de l’Impossible – Bordeaux 1942 (Tresor du
Patrimoine – 2003) - Bourne-Paterson Robert (Major) – SOE in France
1941 – 1945 (Frontline Books – 2016) - Broussine Georges - L’Evadé
de la France Libre – Le Réseau Bourgogne (Tallandier – 2000) -
Brown Anthony Cave – La Guerre Secrète – Le remparet des mensonges
– Origines des moyens spéciaux et premières victoires
alliées (Pygmalion – 1981)
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- Brown Arthur– Some notes on Jedburgh Quinine (1994) -
Buckmaster Maurice – They Fought Alone (Biteback Publishing – 2014)
- Cahiers du CEHD n°E1(32) – Les Forces Spéciales (Special Forces)
- Calvi Fabrizio – OSS La Guerre Secrète en France – Les Services
Spéciaux Américains, la Résistance et la Gestapo 1942-1945 –
(Hachette – avril 1990) - de Cheveigné Maurice– WT Libre
memories could be downloaded from the website :
http://www.alyon.asso.fr/litterature/livres/XX/monades/radio_libre/lug00.html
- Pupils of Collège Jules-Ferry de Gabarret – La vertu est la plus
belle parure de la jeune fille – Histoire de la résistance dans
le
Gabardan 1942-1944 (L’Atelier des Brisants – 2009). - Corta
Henry– Qui Ose Gagne – Les Parachutistes du 2ème RCP (SHAT – 1997)
- Cunningham Cyril – Beaulieu - The Finishing School for Secret
Agents (Pen & Sword - 2005) - Decèze Dominique– Ici Londres …
La lune est pleine d’éléphants verts (J Lanzmann & Seghers –
1979) - Dorrian James - Saint-Nazaire: Operation Chariot - 1942:
Battleground French Coast (Pen & Sword Ltd - 2006) - Erlon
Gaston – Les Parachutistes Soviétiques 1930-1945 (Histoire &
Collections – 2017) - Esnault Maurice – Souppes-sur-Loing Principal
Centre de la Résistance dans le Sud Seine-et-Marnais – L’Histoire
Merveilleuse
du Pont de Souppes 1942 – 1944 (Lys Editions Amatteis – 2009) -
Faivre Mario – Notes à propos de 1944 (Santa Maria & Gazelle –
04/07/1994) - Faligot Roger, Guisnel Jean & KauffeRémi r –
Histoire Politique des Services Secrets Français (La Découverte –
2012) - Faure Claude – Au Service de la République du BCRA à la
DGSE (Fayard – 2004) - Faure Henri aka Gérard – Responsible COPA
Drôme & Ardèche. - Favier Jean - Chénier La Luzette – Terrain
de Parachutage – (Musée de la Résistance Anterrieux – 2012) -
Fleury Georges – Les Français du Jour J (Grasset - 1994) - Foot
M.R.D. – SOE in France – An Account of the Work of the British
Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944
(Whitehall History Publishing – 2004) - Ford Roger– Fire from
the forest – The SAS Brigade in France 1944 (Cassell – 2003) -
Fourcade Marie-Madeleine – L’Arche de Noé (Crémille/François
Beauval – 1972) - Frizzell Lt Arthur– Operation name Emily -
Genet-Rouffiac Nathalie & Longuet Stéphane – Ici Londres - Les
réseaux de Résistance de la France Combattante (Economica –
mai 2013) - Gillet Patricia – Le Livre Blanc du BCRA (Archives
Nationales – 2015) – Could be downloaded using these links :
from
https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/mm/media/download/FRAN_ANX_011334.pdf
to
https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/mm/media/download/FRAN_ANX_011338.pdf
- Grandhay Jean-Claude – La Haute-Saône dans la Deuxième Guerre
Mondiale – Tome I - Les Opérations Aériennes 1943-1945 (ERTI –
1989)
- Groussin Gilles - La Résistance dans le canton de Valençay -
Les Maquis de Gâtine (2006 - ISBN 2-9515378-1-6) - Guillaume
Gilbert – Mes missions face à l’Abwehr Contre-espionnage 1938 –
1945 – Tome 1 (Plon – 1971) & 2 (Plon - 1973) - Helm Sarah –
Vera Atkins, une femme de l’ombre – La résistance anglaise en
France (Seuil – 2010) - Hentic Pierre – Agent de l’Ombre : Mémoire
1941-1945 (La Martininière – 2012) - Henry Diana Mara - Call me
André: Memoirs of a Jewish Spy in the Resistance
(http://www.dianamarahenry.com/CALLMEANDRE.htm) - Histomag’44
n°75 – Dossier Special Bretagne (Janvier-février 2012) – Could be
downloaded through this link: http://www.39-
45.org/histomag/hm75.pdf - Irwin Will Lt Colonel (USA) – The
Jedburghs – The Secret History of Allied Special forces France 1944
(PublicAffairs – 2005) - Jones Benjamin Cpt (USA) – Thesis - The
moon is down – The Jedburghs and the support to French resistance
(April 1999) - King Michael Maj (USA) – Thesis - Jedburgh
Operations: Support to French Resistance in Central France (1977) -
Kirk Kendrick – Messages in Handlebars – The Youngest Resistance
Fighter (Self Published - Lightening Source – 2011) - Lambert
Franck - Saboteurs: French Resistance Against Hitler's Army
(Histoire & Collections – 2015) - Lambert Franck – La Formation
des Agents Secrets par le SOE (Histoire & Collections – 2019) -
Larroque Hervé – Pauline (Par Exemple - 1997) - Lecler Philippe –
Clandestin – Robert Dupuis’ Memories, aka Bob, Arthur 9, Bernard
Lièvre, Bernard Gendre, John Drew,
Pharaon, Constant, Rémy (Amazon UK – November 2013) - Le Mer
Régis & Pellet Jacques – René et Marguerite Pellet, de la
pédagogie à la résistance – Réseau Marco Polo 1942-1944
(Tirésias-Michel Reynaud – janvier 2018) - Léoutre Pierre –
Histoire & Mémoire 2ème GM à Lectoure (Gers) – (DOD - 2009) -
Le Pautremat Pascal– Les Agents Secrets de la France Libre – Le
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (BCRA)
(Histoire & Collection – 2013) - Leroux Roger – Le Morbihan
en Guerre 1939 – 1945 – (Imprimerie de la Manutention à Mayenne –
octobre 1997) - Lewis S.J – Jedburgh Team Operations in support to
the 12th Army Group August 1944 (CSI 1991) - Libre Resistance -
Amicale Réseaux Buckmasteur - Bulletins 1 to 37. - Lucchesi Roland
- De l'intérieur vient la Force - Cahiers de la Résistance et de
l’Histoire Locale dans le Clermontois 1940 – 1944
(Imprim’Service Oise - 1984) - MacCloskey Monroe Col– The USAAF
885th Bomb Squad (Heavy / Special) in World War II – Vol I & II
(Blida 12/04 – 25/08/1944,
Maison Blanche 25/08/1944 – 02/10/1944, Brendisi 02/10/1944) -
MacCue Paul – Behind enemy lines with SAS - Amédée Maingard code
name ‘Sam’ – SOE agent in France 1943 – 1944 (Pen &
Sword Military – 2007) - McCairnJames Atterby s – Lysander Pilot
– Secret Operations with 161 Squadron (Tangmere Military Aviation
Museum – 2016) - Majereranowski Jacques - Une famille polonaise
pendant la 2ème guerre mondiale (Translation - 2017)
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- Manierre Carter H.– Pops’ War - The war memoirs of Major Cyrus
E. Manierre O.S.S (2002) - Mathevet Paul – Les Opérations Aériennes
Clandestines (1942 – 1944) - Mémoire des Passeurs au Clair de Lune
de la Vallée de
la Saône et de la plaine de l’Ain (20/09/2014 – Communes de
Blyes & Saint-Vulbas) - Meyer Eliah – The most secret list of
SOE agents – Downloadable from sur le website
https://independent.academia.edu/EliahMeyer - Miannay Patrice –
Dictionnaire des Agents Doubles dans la Résistance (Le Charche
Midi) - Montouroy Thierry – De Bordeaux à Saint-Clair – Jean
Renaud-Dandicolle (1923 – 1944 ?) – (ThM Autoédition – avril 2012)
- Muelle Raymond – La Glorieuse epopée du 1ier Bataillon de Choc
1943 – 1963 (L’esprit du Livre – 2009) - Nord Pierre - La Guerre du
Renseignement – Mes Camarades sont morts – Tome III (Fayard 1949) -
O’Connor Bernard – Sabotage in France during WWII (Lulu – 2013) -
ONAC Charentes - Opérations Albatros en Charentes (Yannick Aubree)
- Paillole Paul - Services Spéciaux (1935 – 1945) – (Robert Laffont
– 1975) - Pasthier Louis - Affaire des parachutés de Limoges -
Paul-Roux Odile– Résistance dans la Montagne du Tarn - Maquis de
Vabre - De la Chouette au Merle Blanc electronic file could
be downloaded from website http://maquisdevabre.free.fr/. -
Perquin Jean-Louis– Parachutages & Atterrissages Clandestins –
Tome I (Histoire & Collection – 2012) - Perquin Jean-Louis– Les
Opérateurs WT Clandestain (Histoire & Collection – 2012) -
Pichard Michel - L’Espoir des Ténèbres - Parachutages sous
l'Occupation (Erti - 1990) - Pineau Christian – La Simple Vérité
(Crémille – 1972) - Portier David – Les Parachutistes SAS de la
France Libre 1940-1945 (Nimrod) - Ralph Nichols Maj (USA) – Thesis
- Jedburghs operations support to the French resistance in eastern
Brittany from June to
September 1944 (1993). - Rémy – Mémoires d’un Agent Secret de la
France Libre – Tomes 1 à 6 (Presse Pocket - 1966) - Rémy – Réseaux
d’Ombres (Le Livre de Poche - 1969) - Richards Brooks Francis –
Secret Flotillas – Vol I - Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany,
1940-1944 (Whitehall History
Publishing – 2004) - Richards Brooks Francis – Secret Flotillas
– Vol II - Clandestine sea operations in the Mediterranean, North
Africa and the
Adriatic, 1940-1944 (Whitehall History Publishing – 2004) -
Richards Brooks Francis – Secret Flotillas – The clandestine sea
operations to France and French North Africa, 1940-1944
(HMSO – 1996) - Rous Elly – Les Renards de l’Ombre (Nouvelles
Editions Latines – 2008) - Schoolchildren of Collège Jules-Ferry of
Gabarret – La vertu est la plus belle parure de la jeune fille –
Histoire de la résistance
dans le Gabardan 1942-1944 (L’Atelier des Brisants – 2009). -
Seaman Mark– Special Operations Executive – A new instrument of war
(Routledge – 2006) - Service Départemental du Cantal - DZ / LZ «
Chénier » - Collection M2C (ONAC - 2005) - Service Historique de la
Défence (SHD) - Les Réseaux de résistance de la France combattante
- Dictionnaire Historique
(Economa – 2013) - Ruby Marcel– F Section SOE – The Sory of
Buckmaster Networks (Leo Cooper – 1985) - Rudolph Luc– Policiers
Rebelles - Tome 1 (SPE - 2014) - Seymour-Jones Carole - She landed
by moonlight (Hodder & Stoughton – 2013) - Simonin Général Paul
- Des Francs-Comtois dans la Résistance (Editions MARQUE-MAILLARD –
1983) - Sonneville Pierre - Les combattants de La Liberté - Nous
n'étions pas dix mille – (La Table Ronde – 1968). - Soulier
Dominique– Le Plan Sussex - Opération ultra-secrète
américano-franco-britannique 1943-1944 (Hirlé – 2009) - Soulier
Dominique– Sussex Plan - Secret war in occupied France 1943-1945
(Histoire & Collections – 2013) - Sullivan Maj Jimmie (USAF) –
Thesis - Jedburgh operations in Southwestern Brittany from July to
September 1944 (2006) - Suttill Francis J. - Prosper Major
Suttill’s French Resistance Network (The History Press – 2018) -
Tebbutt Roy – List of aircrafts lost during Allied Special Duty
Operations (Carpetbagger Aviation Museum of Harrington UK) to
be
downloaded from the website:
http://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/Aircraft%20lost%20on%20Allied%20Forces%20Special%20Duty%20Operations.pdf
- Thomas Gordon & Lewis Greg – Shadow Warriors – Daring
Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS & SOE (Amberley
2016)
- Verity Hugh – We landed by Moonlight (2000 edition - Crecy)
(Hugh Verity died on 14th November 2001) - Walker Edward Wake- – A
House for Spies (Robert Hale – 2011) - Wagener Robert – Etre et
Durer – 70ème anniversaire des premières unites parachutists
1937-2007 (Atlante – 2006). - Young Gordon – The Cat with two faces
– (Coward-McCann – 1957)
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24. Summary of Joes inserted/exfiltrated into France:
Crews Sorties Agents
Att. Succ. Dropped Landed/Down Up
RAF (from GB – HS 08/434)
RAF 161 Squadron (SIS PU operations)
6096
119
3725
106
584
NR
232
190
383
194
USAAF Carpetbaggers (from GB) 1944
(SIS PU operation)
2555
1
1909
1
284
NR
61
13
176
13
RAF 148 & 624 Squadrons from Algiers, Corsica (HS 08/434)
1106 645 397 31 34
USAAF 885th BS from Algiers, Corsica including OSS/OG 1944 (HS
08/434)
607 484 193 0 0
Total (GB, Algiers & Corsica) 10484 6870 1458 527 800
SOE F & RF from GB 1941 (HS8/422) 22 22 0 1 1
SOE F & RF from GB 1942 (HS8/422) 93 93 140 15 19
SOE F & RF from GB 1943 (HS8/422) 1266 712 408 104 193
SOE F & RF from GB 1944 (HS8/422) 7013 4589 654 164 344
Total SOE F & RF from GB 8394 5416 1202 284 557
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25. Map of SUSSEX Missions in France
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26. Map of SOE networks in France (AN 72 AJ 39III document
5)
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27. Map of different military regions (KEW HS7249 & HS7/251
– SOE RF)
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28. Map of special operations: OSS/OG, SAS, Jedburghs, IAM &
Counter Scorching Group:
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29. RAF Map of DZ and LZ (KEW HS 8/132 – Francis Suttill) :
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30. Map of Escape Lines :
(http://www.evasioncomete.org/CarteRoutes.html)
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31. Acknowledgements
I would like to express my best thanks to the following persons
who spent a lot of time reviewing, commenting and looking for
additional information to help me to complete this tentative of
history of In/Exfiltrations not finished yet.
Name Topic
BASSET Clive & SOUQUET Bertrand Jedburghs BASSET John Paul
BCRA BODY Robert RAF 138, 161 & 1419 Sqn BUTTERWORTH Trevor
with a special mention SOE Operations & Quality Control
CHATELIN Patrick Operations organized by CHATELIN François aka
Lecomte COHEN Colin SUSSEX Plan CUSSEN Chris RAF 161 Sqn -
Operations flown by his father DISNEY Ryan POWN / Monika ENSMINGER
Thomas Carpetbaggers GATKA Henri Polish Networks HABERSSACK Patrick
PROUST & SUSSEX Plans HARRISON David SOE Operations GRABOWSKI
Waldemar SOE Operations by Polish agents JOUAN Yves Clandestine
operations into Brittany KIPPAX Steven SOE Operations & KEW
Archives MAJERANOWSKI Jacques Infiltrationsof Polish agents
MATHEVET Paul Clandestine operations in Saône and Ain Valleys
MESSAGER Pascal Maritime Operations in Brittany & VAR escape
line MONTOUROY Thierry Renaud-Dandicolle Jean SOE F PORTIER David
& JOUAN Yves FFL SAS PERQUIN Jean-Louis Infiltrations of
Massingham agents RIVIERE Claude SOE RF operations organized by
Paul RIVIERE (CL) aka Galvani ROMAIN Bruno Airdropping Operations
in Indre SOULIER Dominique PROUST & SUSSEX Plans SUTTILL
Francis DZ & LZ maps (Physician and related networks) SCHMIDT
Dominique SOE RF operations organized by SCHMIDT Paul (CL) aka Kim
SUTTILL Francis Cartes DZ & LZ (Physician/Prosper Network &
related) TROUPLIN Vladimir Compagnons de la Libération
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32. Abbreviations and explanations:
ABBREVIATION NATIONALITY IDENTIFICATION
AI 10 GB Nom de couverture du SOE par le Ministère de l’Air Air
Ministry cover name for SOE AK Poland Armia Krajowa AN France
French National Archives (Archives Nationales)
ARA Belgium Agent de Renseignement et d’Action Belgian Agent of
Action and Intelligence
BCRA French Bureau Central de Renseignements and d'Action
Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations
BCRAA French Bureau Central de Renseignements and d'Action Alger
Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations in Algiers
BCRAL French Bureau Central de Renseignements and d'Action
Londres Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations in London
Bn all Battalion
BOA France Bloc d'Opérations Aériennes en zone occupée - Group
of Air Operations in France Occupied (North Zone)
B Choc France Commando Battalion = Bataillon de Choc BNAF GB
British North Africa Forces – Forces Britanniques d’Afrique du Nord
BRISSEX UK, France 25 SUSSEX teams operating in the British zone of
operations (SIS/MI 6) CIA France Airborne Infantry Company-
Compagnie d’Infanterie de l’Air (will become 3rd and 4th French
SAS) CL France Compagnon de la Libération Cdo All Commando
COPA France Centre d'Opérations de Parachutages and
d'Atterrissages en zone libre - Centre of Parachuting and Landing
Operations in France not occupied (South Zone)
DZ All Dropping Zone SCST France Service Central de la
Surveillance du Territoire - Central Territorial Surveillance
Service CVFF France Corps des Volontaires Féminines Françaises -
French Feminine Volunteers CVR SHD/France Combattant Volontaire de
la Résistance - Fighting Volunteers of the Resistance DIR
SHD/France Déportés et Internés de la Résistance – Deportees and
Internees of Resistance DSM France Direction Sécurité Militaire -
Direction of Military Security
DSRM France Directions des Services de Renseignements et de
Sécurité Militaire – Direction of Intelligence and Military
Security Departments DZ Tous Terrain de parachutage (Dropping Zone)
FA USA Field Artillery FAFL France Forces Aériennes Françaises
Libres - Free French Air Forces FFC France Forces Françaises
Combattantes – Fighting French Forces FFL France Forces Françaises
Libres - Free French Forces FFI France Forces Françaises de
l’Intérieur - French Forces of the Interior FNFL France Forces
Navales Françaises Libres - Free French Naval Forces Gestapo
Germany Geheime Staatspolizei – Nazi State Secret Police GeFePo
Germany Geheime Feldpolizei – Nazi Military Secret Police IAM
Allied Inter Allied Mission ISRB GB Inter Services Research Bureau
(For security purposes the SOE was concealed behind this name) ISSU
BNAF Inter Services Special Unit - Unité Spéciale Inter-Armées
(MASSINGHAM) ITG SHD/France Integration Résistants dans l’Armée
française – Resistance fighter Integration in the French Army Jed
Allied Jedburgh KRIPO Germany Kriminalpolizei - Criminal Police LZ
All Landing Zone LCI(S) Alliés Landing Craft Infantry (Small)
LCP(L) Alliés Landing Craft Personnel (Large) MASB UK Motor
Anti-Submarine Boat MFV GB Motor Fishing Vessel MGB UK Motor Gun
Boat MI 5 UK Military Intelligence, Section 5 - Security Service is
Britain's domestic intelligence agency
MI 6 UK Military Intelligence, Section 6 - Officially known as
the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is the chief British foreign
intelligence organization
MI 9 UK Military Intelligence, Section 9 - Secret Intelligence
Service in charge of escape routes and evasions MPU RAF Mail Pick
Ups MTB UK & US Motor Torpedo Boat NKVD USSR Narodnyĭ
Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del - People's Commissariat for Internal
Affairs ORA France Organisation de Résistance de l'Armée -
Resistance Organisation of the Army
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OSS USA Office of Strategic Services OSSEX USA, France 29 SUSSEX
teams operating in the American zone of operations (OSS) OG USA
Operational Group (OSS) POW All Prisoner of War POWN Polish Polska
Organizacja Walki o Niepodleglosc – Polish Fighting Organization
for Freedom PROUST USA, France French officers infiltrated for the
OSS PWE UK Political Warfare Executive RECON USA Reconnaissance RIF
SHD/France Résistance Intérieure Française - French Internal
Resistance RMC UK Royal Marine Commando RSHA Germany
Reichssicherheitshauptamt – Reich Security Central Office (SIPO,
SD, Gestapo, KRIPO)
SAP France Service d’Atterrissages and Parachutages – Service of
Parachuting and Landing (Former COPA) (South Zone)
SAS (1st & 2nd) UK British Special Air Service SAS (3rd
& 4th) France Free French Special Air Service SAS (5th) or Ind.
Para Coy
Belgium Belgium Special Air Service called Independent Parachute
Company
SBS UK Special Boat Service SD Germany Sicherheitsdienst - SS
Intelligence Service SFHQ Allied General Eisenhower’s Special Force
Head Quarter SFU Allied Special Force Unit SHD France French Army
Archives in Vincennes (Service Historique de la Défense) SI USA
Secret Intelligence Branch (OSS) SIPO Germany Sicherheitspolizei -
Security Police SIS UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) SITREP
Allied SITuation REPort – Rapport de Situation SOE GB Special
Operation Executives
SOE DF France, UK, USA SOE Escape Section
SOE F France, UK, USA Special Operations Executive, F Section
known as Buckmaster
SOE RF France Special Operations Executive, RF Section SPOC
OSS/SOE Special Project Operation Center (MASSINGHAM) SSMF/TR
France Service de Sécurité Militaire en France / Travaux Ruraux
(Cdt Paul Paillole) SSRF UK Small Scale Raiding Force SSV UK
Special Service Vessel (SOE & SIS) USSF USA United States
Special Forces VM Germany Vertrauen Mann – Right-Hand Man WT Allied
Radio-operator (Wireless Transmission)
33. Appendix - Table of History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during
WWII into/from France from 1940 to 1945
33.1. Table of History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during WWII
into/from France in 1940 33.2. Table of History of Agents
In/Exfiltrated during WWII into/from France in 1941 33.3. Table of
History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during WWII into/from France in
1942 33.4. Table of History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during WWII
into/from France in 1943 33.5. Table of History of Agents
In/Exfiltrated during WWII into/from France in 1944 33.6. Table of
History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during WWII into/from France in
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Appendix 33.1 - Table of History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during
WWII into/from France in 1940 DATE DZ / LZ REF ORGANIZATION
OPERATION TYPE OF OPERATION
1940
18/06/1940 Near Kerbiquet, Ploudaniel,Morbihan Due to land on
water in Carantec Commemorative plaque in Carantec
http://www.ouest-france.fr/la-mission-secrete-devait-sauver-les-de-gaulle-2633312
R Tebbutt – Aircrafts lost during Special Duty Operations
http://www.absa3945.com/Pertes%20Bretagne/Finistere/pertes_raf_finister
e.html#Walrus%20L2312
RAAF10 Sqn seaplane Walrus Mk. I L2312 (John Bell pilot, Charles
Harris navigator, WT Bernard Nowell & SIS Cpt Norman Hope)
crashed near Ploudaniel 30 km SW de Carantec To embark Yvonne,
Philippe, Anne & Élisabeth de Gaulle with Mlle Potel, la
gouvernante. Graves in Ploudaniel.
18/06/1940 Douarnenez, Finistère
http://recherches.historiques-leconquet.over-blog.com/page/5
Clandestins de l’Iroise - René Pichavant CL Bibliography
Crayfish boat « Le Trébouliste » (François L’Helguen) boarded
Edouard Pinot (CL) with 115 students of flying schools of Le Mans
& Vannes
18/06/1940 Brest, Finistère
SHD GR16P67268 – Bohec J R Leroux – Morbihan en Guerre
Jeanne Bohec’s testimony
http://ufacbagnolet.over-blog.com/article-23787346.html
http://frenchtugs.free.fr/cies/portuaires/abeilles.htm
http://www.lesamisdelaresistancedumorbihan.com/styled-9/styled-
5/page2/page84/index.html
Tug « Abeille IV » boarded Jeann Bohec aka Rateau
18/06/1940 Paimpol, Cotes du Nord
https://www.memorialjeanmoulin.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=161
Crayfish boat « Reine Astrid » left for Falmouth with Hervé
Montjaret & his brother Joseph
19/06/1940 Aber-Wrac’h harbour
Trawler from Dieppe « Lucien Gougy » embarked for Plymouth :
François & Jean Briant with Pierre Richard, Jean & Louis
Tromelin, Pierre Troadec, Jean Appriou, André Coz, Yves Tavernier,
Jean Guillermou, Alfred Bodénès, Jean Le Hir, Jean Bouger, Antoine
Galliou, Fanch Kermoal, Raymond Tuyaire, Guido Zanetti & Yves
Lazennec (Young people of Lannilis)
22/06/1940 Falmouth, Cornwall SHD GR16P295653 – Renault G
Mémoires Agent Secret Rémy
Norvegian cargo Lista boarded Gilbert Renault aka Rémy (CL),
Claude Renault, Marc de Saint-Denis, Minne & Vermeulen
15/07/1940 Falmouth, Cornwalls R Leroux - Morbihan en Guerre
Fishing boat left Pointe Keroman (Lorient) with Pierre Thomas,
Louis Bouter, Geoerges Le Meur, Jean Le Jorde, Jean Le Pan, Yvon
Guouello, Robert Le Floch & Frédéric Rio. Le Grec renamed
Rouanez ar Peoc’h
24/06/1940 Fort de France, Martinique Ctre Amiral Lepotier - La
Bataille de l'Or
350 tons of gold loaded in Brest (Portzic Fortress) on
10/06/1940 in 4,000 bags of gold coins and 800 cases of 50 kg with
ingots NB1: Gold will remain in Desaix Fortress and will be brought
back to Cherbourg by the cruiser Montcalm (Cpt de Vaisseau
Chatellier) on 28/02/1946 NB2: The Bank of France had also
transported a shipment of gold to Dakar in June 1940 (Dakar
Gold)
Martinique Gold Cruiser Emile Bertin (Cpt de Vaisseau Battet)
Reception M. de Katov (Banque de France)
27/07/1940 Le Guilvinec, Finistère
SHD GR16P350968 – Le Corre R B Richards Secret Flotillas
http://www.france-libre.net/premieres-missions-moreau/
http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=79016
BCRA Hubert Moreau & Raymond Le Corre (Johny) SIS
Falmouth sardine boat Le Korrigan (Le Goff) Hubert Moreau was
picked-up on 30/07/1940 Raymond Le Corre arrested on 19/04/1941,
with Marcel Guénolé & Henri Le Goff, deported on 22/01/1945
& liberated on 29/04/1945
02/08/1940 Hourtin light house, 21 km NW Lacanau, Gironde
B Richards Secret Flotillas
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3496.html BCRA Bohec?? + 2
British SIS agents A5/SLO2 HMS submarine Talisman N78 (Lt/Cdr
Philip Francis)
03/08/1940 Saint-Aubin sur Mer beach, N Langrune sur Mer, 10 km
NW Ouistreham, Calvados
SHD GR16P49289 – Beresnikoff A SHD Dictionnaire Historique
CL bibliography B Richards Secret Flotillas C Faure du BCRA à
DGSE P Gillet – Livre Blanc BCRA
http://www.france-libre.net/mon-evasion/
BCRA Maurice Duclos (CL) aka Saint-Jacques & Alexandre
Beresnikoff aka Corvisart A5/SLO3
HMS MA/SB 40 Maurice Duclos (CL) aka Saint-Jacques reached GB
via Oran then Casablanca on 24/12/1940 Alexandre Beresnikoff was
back to GB via Spain & Portugal on 15/01/1941
05/08/1940 Douarnenez, Finistère
SHD GR 16 P 146400 & SHD-GR28P4 361/2 – Coulomb M SHD
GR17P96 – Cartwright
SHD GR28P4 361/1 – Ivernel R B Richards Secret Flotillas
http://www.france-libre.net/premieres-missions-moreau/
BCRA Hubert Moreau & Michel Coulomb aka Courtois aka
Cartwright aka Eve SIS
Fishing boat « Rouanez ar Peoc'h » (François Fouquet) To set up
SIS Cartwright Network Hubert Moreau boarded 17/08/1940
10/08/1940 Franco-Spanish border crossing SHD GR16P295653 –
Renault G BCRA Gilbert Renault pseudo Georges Roulier
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01/09/1940 Cape of la Chèvre, 7 km S harbour of Morgat, 11 km SW
Crozon, Finistère
AN – 46 Mi 8 –Mansion J’s Questioning SHD GR16P390122 &
GR28P4 118 2 – Mansion J
CL Bibliography B Richards Secret Flotillas
S Albertelli – Services Secrets du Gal de Gaulle C Faure du BCRA
à DGSE P Gillet – Livre Blanc BCRA
BCRA Jacques Mansion (CL) aka Jack aka Martineau (Secret
Flotillas stated 30/07/1940 and S Albertelli in August after Hubert
Moreau) NB: AN 46 Mi 8 & SHD 16 P 390122 mentionned 01/09/1940
?
Mission 1 Fishing boat JW or JJ? Jacques Mansion back to GB on
05/11/1940
02/09/1940 Via Lisboa & Madrid, crossing of Franco-Spanish
border on foot
SHD-GR16P2030613 – Fourcaud P CL Bibliography
BCRA Pierre Fourcaud aka Lucas (CL) To set up network
Fleurs/Brutus Pierre Forcaud back to GB ion 21/12/1940 via
Lisboa
06/09/1940 Porz Loubous, 1.5 km S Plogoff, Finistère
AN – 46 Mi 7 – Marie-Louise AN – 46 Mi 14 – Agent Betrayal SHD
GR16P33592 – Barlier M
B Richards Secret Flotillas Does not match with CL
bibliography
Commemorative plate
2 British agents Barclay & Arthur BCRA Maurice Barlier
(Nemrod Network)
A5/SLO1 Fishing boat « Rouanez ar Mor » (Prosper Couillandre)
Barclay & Arthur re-boarded due to lack of false ID papers
07/09/1940
06/09/1940 Marseille via Lisbone & Barcelona
SHD GR16P295450 – Jekiel Th
http://www.memoresist.org/spip.php?page=oublionspas_detail&id=197
http://books.google.fr/books?id=cmBc2ONsP6UC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=thad%C3%A9e+jekiel+1940&source=bl&ots=45nyCNgfKk&sig=ihgRPIXZ
4N1ks2a5NeutoDahz6c&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=Pg-tU-GbA8SVPOHSgcAK&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ#v=snippet&q=doctor&f=false
SHD Dictionnaire Historique R Leroux – Morbihan en Guerre
SIS WT Thadeusz Jekiel aka Doctor pseudo Curt Rene (Network
F2)
To set up Military Intelligence Network F2 with Polish agents
& SIS Arrested 12/11/1941 in Alger, sent to Marseille
04/04/1942, emprisoned, released 06/08/1942, exfiltrated by Felucca
Seadog 02/09/1942 (Operation Vagran) from Trayas Cape (3.4 km S
Théoule sur Mer – Alpes Maritimes) to Gibraltar then to London
14/09/1940 Concarneau, Finistère
SHD GR16P33592 – Barlier M
http://www.pontaven.com/Daniel-Lomenech
http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=28638&page=1
https://books.google.fr/books?id=BgdVTN-
KXpEC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=thonier+Lusitania+1940&source=bl&ots=tuLK0Y0Psc&sig=WXFkd-
HU_5yUg1c7sOOeR9j9FN4&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBGoVChMIsruC2aCeyAIVS1UaCh2qHAQ4#v=onepage&q=thonier%20Lusitania%201940
&f=false
Tuna boat Lusitania boarded for 12000 francs Daniel Lomenech (To
be Lt Royal Navy), Gaston Kerlan (To be pilot, Yann Palabre,
Maurice Barlier (Nemrod network) & Joseph Burel SHD GR16P33592
mentioned 20/09/1940
End September 1940
Camaret, Finistère SHD GR16P353784 & GR28P4 118 3 – Le Fevre
R
SHD GR28P4 118 2 – Mansion J
Fishing Boat Marie-Louise 2011 C39 / 5565 FN40 (Celton) embarked
BCRA Jacques Mansion (CL) aka Jack aka Martineau & WTRoger Le
Fevre aka Laurent to reach Falmouth (GB)
01/10/1940 Plogoff, Finistère, France SHD GR16P189489 &
GR28P4 64 8 – Doornik J BCRA Jan Doornik (CL) aka Marcel Milot
(Nemrod) NB: Not mentioned by B Richards in Secret Flotillas
Lobster boat Louis Jules (Newlyn) Jan Doornik (CL) arrested
05/02/1941 in Plogoff, shot with Maurice Barlier & Honoré
Estienne d’Orves (CL) aka Jean-Pierre Girard in Mont Valérien
29/08/1941
0910/1940 Near Bourron-Marlotte, 3.4 km W Montigny sur Loing, 8
km Fontainebleau
B Richards Secret Flotillas C Faure du BCRA à DGSE
P Hentic – Agent de l’Ombre
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/1940/10/page/2/
http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/09936.php
SIS F/Lt Alfred Philip Frank Schneidau aka Felix aka Philipson
aka Mr Y with pigeon NURP.36.JH.190. called Kenley Lass
Felix SIS ?? RAF 149 Sqn Whitley (F/O Oettle) To get in touch
with relationships in Paris to set-up network Felix
10/10/1940 Porz Loubous, 1.5 km S Plogoff, Finistère, Seine
& Marne
AN – 46 Mi 7 – Marie-Louise SHD GR 16 P 346754 – Lequien G
B Richards Secret Flotillas C Faure du BCRA à DGSE
BCRA Georges Lequien NB: SHD file GR 16 P 346754 does not have
any information
1st Trip
Fishing boat Marie-Louise 2011 C39 / 5565 FN40 deguised under
identity of fishing boat Louis Jules - Newlyn (François Follic)
Georges Lequien went back to Newlyn on 20/10/1941
19/10/1940
2.4 km E Montcourt-Fromonville, 4.3 km S Montigny sur Loing, 4.7
km NE Nemours, LZ (48° 18’ 00’’ N – 02° 44’ 00’’ E), Seine &
Marne
KEW AIR 40/2659 -App A1 A&B Bertram – Secret of Bignor
Manor
H Verity - Ed 2000 - App B RAF Accident Record Card
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/1940/10/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/58/a2088858.shtml
Felix I
SIS n°1
RAF 149 Sqn Lysander (F/Lt WJ Farley) Reception SIS Philip
Schneidau aka Felix aka Philipson 1 passenger: SIS Philip Schneidau
aka Felix Lysanser crashed near Oban (Scotland) due to very bad
weather, tailplane & compass damaged inducing fuel breakdown
F/Lt WJ Farley & Philip Schneidau slightly injured
21/10/1940 Douarnenez, Finistère
SHD GR16P5826 & GR28P4 221/4 – Alaterre R SHD GR16P599317 –
Vourc’h Guy
http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=101091&page=1
http://www.cieldegloire.com/004_scheidhauer_b.php
http://commandokieffer.canalblog.com/archives/2008/03/11/8279352.html
http://www.almrd22.fr/IMG/pdf/Cap_vers_l_inconnu.pdf
Fishing boat “La Petite Anna” with 6 passengers : Robert
Alaterre (To be WT of Johny Network), Guy Vourc’h (To be Lt
Commando Kieffer Troop 1), Jean Vourc’h (CL), Joseph Ferchaud (To
be 3SAS), Charles de la Patelliere & Bernard Scheidhauer (To be
pilot RAF 131 Sqn, was captured on 18/11/1942 & executed by
Gestapo after failed escape). Were rescued by English freighter
S.S. Cairngorn following breakdown in storm & disembarked in
Milford Haven after 11 days.
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November 1940
Douarnenez via Ile de Sein, Finistère SHD GR16P353784 &
GR28P4 118 3 – Le Fevre R
Miannay P - Dictionnaire Agents Doubles SIS/BCRA WT Roger Le
Fevre aka Laurent
Fishing boat Rouan Nez Ar Peoc’h (Couillandre) Roger Le Fevre
aka Laurent arrested in Paris on 20/10/1941 by Albert Gaveau (Agent
Abwehr DOE VIII) escaped from Angers Prison on 02/01/1942, arrested
in North Africa on 08/11/1942, imprisoned for 3 years in Oran,
liberated on 12/01/1946 & exonerated of betrayal charges
26/11/1940 Falmouth, Cornouailles Glagow (Scotland)
R Leroux - Morbihan en Guerre
https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3496.html
Fishing boat Le Clipper (Jean Stephan) left Port Tudy (Groix
Island) was boarded by submarine N78 HMS Talisman (Lt/Cdr Philip
Francis) Le Clipper renamed La Louise
xx/11/1940
Dropped by mistake on Saint-Servan sur Mer beach instead of Batz
Island, near Aleth castle, 3 km S Saint-Malo, Ille &
Vilaine
SHD GR16P519080 - Romans-Szlezinger A
http://www.absa3945.com/ORB/CPF86600827_l_extraordinaire_aventure_
d_alain_romans.avi
http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=93948
http://www.opex360.com/2015/07/05/lextraordinaire-destin-dalain-romans-heros-discret-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/
Commandos including Alain Alain Romans-Szlezinger & 5
British commandos with WT set NB: Impossible to find any evidence
of this operation
????
RAF 419 Sqn North Weald - Whitley To collect information on
German invasion preparation (Seelöwe Plan) in Batz Island. All 6
commandoswere caugh, jailed into Solidor tower and shot. Alain
Romans was only wounded and survived.
02/12/1940 Cape of Brézelec, 3.8km N Plogoff, Finistère
AN 46 Mi 7 – Marie-Louise AN 46 Mi 8 –Mansion J’s
Questioning
AN 46Mi 14 – Mansion J SHD GR16P33592 – Barlier M
SHD GR16P390122 & GR28P4 118 2 – Mansion J B Richards Secret
Flotillas – Volume I
Commemorative plate
BCRA Jacques Mansion (CL) & Sgt Maurice Barlier (Nemrod) NB
: AN 46 M i8 states end December d1940 & Pont Croix coast
(Audierne), SHD GR16P390122 on 09/12/1940 & SHD GR16P33592 on
11/12/1940 & lobster boat Louis Jules
2nd Trip A5/SLO6 Mission 2
Fishing boat « Marie-Louise » 2011 C39 / 5565 FN40 (François
Follic) To prepare arrival of Estienne d’Orves Maurice Barlier
arrested on 10/02/1941, shot with Jan Doornk & Honoré Estienne
d’Orves (CL) aka Jean-Pierre Girard in Mont Valérien 29/08/1941
Jacques Mansion back to GB on 13/07/1941
03/12/1940 Port Vendres, Pyrénées Orientales SHD GR7NN3194 –
Duclos M
CL bibliography SHD Dictionnaire Historique
BCRA Maurice Duclos (CL) aka Saint-Jacques boarded for GB via
Oran (Algeria), Marocco & Lisboa (Se-plane)
03/12/1940 Via Gibraltar, crossing of Franco-Spanish border on
foot
SHD GR16P263368 – Gorce M SHD GR16P263036 – Gontier P
SIS Marguerite Alice Louis born Gorce & Pierre Gontier
(Network Georges France 31)
Pierre Gontier arrested on 24/11/1941 in Rouen/Paris train,
juged 07/10/1942 & shot on 27/11/1942 in Mont Valérien
Marguerite Gorce arrested 24/10/1941 in Rouen/Paris train, deported
21/12/1942 to Gross Rosen then women prison of Aichach &
liberated on 15/05/1945
15/12/1940 Camaret, Finistère
B Richards Secret Flotillas CL Bibliography
http://www.france-libre.net/temoignages-documents/temoignages/etrange-depart-emigrant.php
Lobster fishing boat l’Emigrant left to Ponzance (Cornwalls GB)
with onboard Jacques Andrieux FAFL (CL), Jean Le Roux, André
Casalis, Jean Lavalou, Daniel Lomenech & Jean Milon with 2
German agents (Polish ?) aka Jean & Georges Following
Drévillon’s betrayal the departure was watched by German Customs
Gast.
16/12/1940 Port-Haliguen, Quiberon, Morbihan SHD GR16P420069 –
Milon J
B Richards Secret Flotillas - Vol I R Leroux - Morbihan en
Guerre
BCRA Daniel Lomenech & Jean Milon (Johny) SIS Fishing boat
Rouanez ar Peoc'h (François Fouquet) found empty in Quiberon
Bay
21/12/1940 Porz Loubous, 1.5 km S Plogoff, Finistère
AN – 46 Mi 7 – Estienne d’Orves H AN – 46 Mi 14 – Gaessler A
SHD GR28P9 1669 – Gaessler A SHD GR16P238180 – Gaessler A
B Richards Secret Flotillas CL bibliography
C Faure du BCRA à DGSE P Gillet – Livre Blanc BCRA
http://www.fondationresistance.org
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/content/download/100757/978270/file/MC17.pdf
Commemorative plate
BCRA Honoré Estienne d’Orves (CL) aka Jean-Pierre Girard &
WT Alfred Gaessler aka Georges Marty (Nemrod)
Fishing boat “Marie-Louise” deguised under identity of fishing
boat Louis Jules - Newlyn (François Follic) To set up Nemrod
network Honoré Estienne d’Orves caught on 21/01/1941 following
Alfred Gaessler’s denunciation & shot with Maurice Barlier
& Jan Doornik(CL) in Mont Valérien 29/08/1941 Alfred Gaessler
Garman Army on 25/02/1943 then the Kriegsmarine on 17/10/1943.
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Appendix 33.2 - Table of History of Agents In/Exfiltrated during
WWII into/from France in 1941 DATE DZ / LZ REF ORGANIZATION
OPERATION TYPE OF OPERATION
1941
10/01/1941 S Chateaumeillant, Cher
SHD GR16P295583 – Lamirault Cl SHD – Dictionnaire Historique
CL bibliography A.Aglan Histoire du Network Jade-Fitzroy
(1940-1944)
SIS Claude Lamirault (CL) aka Fitzroy aka Jade SIS / Fitzroy RAF
1419 Sqn - Stradishall - Whitley P5029 (F/O Oettle) To set-up MI6
intelligenge network Jade-Fitzroy with Pierre Hentic aka Maho aka
Trellu
13/01/1941 Via Lisbonne & Madrid, Spanish border crossed on
foot
SHD-GR16P2030613 – Fourcaud P CL Bibliography
BCRA Pierre Fourcaud aka Lucas (CL)
To meet in Vichy Georges Loustanau-Lacau aka Navarre & Head
of Anti Petain Comittee Pierre Forcaud arrestedé in Marseille on
27/08/1941 & escaped on10/08/1942
16/01/1941 Near Chateauroux, Indre SHD GR 16 P 146400 &
GR28P4 361/2 – Coulomb M
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/1941/01/ SIS Lt Michel Coulomb aka
Michael Cartwright pseudo Courtois Cart ? RAF 1419 Sqn -
Stradishall - Whitley (F/O Oettle)
January 1941 to 11/11/1944 France
SHD GR16P415081 – Meyer A (Derogation) F Calvi - OSS en France
SR Kleberg (Bruno) in Switzerland Cpt Albert Meyer
To reconstitute Battle Order of German Army For 4 years, Albert
Meyer crossed the borders of Alsace, Belgium & Switzerland more
than 200 times during his missions into France Denounced, he was
arrested in Belfort on 11/11/1944 with 19 members of his network,
tortured, deported on 18/11/1944 & imprisoned at the fortress
of Fribourg. Condemned to death, on the night of 27/11/1944 during
the bombing of Fribourg he escaped, arrested, escaped again, was
liberated by the Americans – Back to Switzerland on 25/03/1945.
13/02/1941 Forest of Saint-Cirq, 6 km W Bugue (Dordogne),
France
AN 46Mi 14 – Agents’Betrayal SHD – Dictionnaire Historique
CL bibliography C Faure du BCRA à DGSE
P Gillet – Livre Blanc Remy - Reseaux d’Ombres
Miannay P - Dictionnaire Agents Doubles www.France-Libre.net
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/1941/02/page/2/
BCRA Maurice Duclos aka Saint-Jacques & WT John Mulleman
pseudo John McLennan aka Maupin WT set Athos
RAF 1419 Sqn - Stradishall - Whitley ()F/Lt Keast) Maurice
Duclos broke his right leg Charles Deguy, Marcel Halbout, Lucien
Feltesse arrested following John Mullemen’s treason John
Mulleman,arrested & imprisoned in Angers prison with WT Alfred
Gaessler aka Georges Marty (Nemrod), accepted to be VM for René
Gilles (Lt Abwehr) then for Sonderführer Helmut Schiele aka
Meunier. Was arrested, judged and sentenced to death on 13/02/1946,
was executed on 28/05/1946 in Fort Montrouge
14/02/1941 Porz Loubous, 1.5 km S Plogoff, Finistère
AN – 46 Mi 7 – Marie-Louise AN – 46Mi 14 – Le Prince JJ
SHD GR16P364479 – Leprince JJ B Richards Secret Flotillas - Vol
I
P Gillet – Livre Blanc
http://www.francaislibres.net/liste/fiche.php?index=81050
BCRA WT Jean-Jacques Leprince for Honoré Estienne d’Orves 5th
Trip Allah
A4/SLO1
Bateau de pêche Marie-Louise (François Follic) was lured and
boarded by 2 German patrol boats (Abwehr) on 15/02/1941, following
Alfred Gaessler’s betrayal, jailed in Brest then Angers and Cherche
Midi prison in Paris, sentenced to death 26/05/1941, deported to
hard labor camp of Reinbach 16/10/1941, sanitary repatriated &
died in Livarot (Calvados) on 06/06/1944 4th Trip canceled
following compass failure
12/03/1941
5 Km SW Chateauroux, Indre « Le bébé commence à marcher »
SHD 16 P 467760 – Perot E P Hentic - Agent de l’Ombre
A Aglan Histoire Réseau Jade-Fitzroy (1940-1944) RAF 1419 Sqn
log & report 40A
http://beforetempsford.org.uk/1941/03/page/2/
SIS/MI6 WT Eugène Pérot aka Pepe (Jade-Fitzroy) Fitzroy
RAF 1419 Sqn - Stradishall - Whitley (F/O Oettle) WT Op for
Claude Lamirault Eugène Perot aka Pepe arrested 28/04/1942 &
shot in Mont Valérien 06/10/1942
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