Failed OSS / OSE Ops in WWII

Early in 1944 Capt.Sutcliffe was posted to the Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in southern Italy in Brindisi. A chance meeting with Brigadier  Fitzroy Maclean led to him being recruited to join the Special Operations Executive’s (SOE) mission to the Yugoslav partisans.      Sutcliffe in post war ear 1st Royal Irish Fusilliers Battalion along with " Monty " After a four-day parachute course, two days on weapons training and another two on explosives he was dropped into the Papuk Hills in eastern Croatia . He commanded the Geisha Mission , comprising three radio operators, an interpreter and two members of the American OSS . The Mission operated between the Drava and Sava rivers and covered the road and rail links between Belgrade and Zagreb . S OE assigned  Captain Maurice Sutcliffe's team missison "Geisha " in the Papuk Hills in eastern Croatia which included Berditschew, Fintchi possibly G.T.Davies and two members of the American OSS.  R...

" Berditchev a small player in a huge game " " ברדיצ'ב שחקן קטן במשחק ענק" CO, Lt.Col.Henry Threlfall, Force 139, SOE Bari  Lt.Abba Berdichev OSE Operative Force 133 & 139 My study into this subject revealled several new facts about Abba Berdichev's mission into Yugoslavia and Banska . By all determinations I exclude that his task on March 1944 was to  penetrate in due course Romania then conduct SOE activities in there with the local Jewish community and then make connection with the Allied airmen held POW at Timisul near  Sinaia unlike various Israeli archives indicate . In fact he joined the SOE Team of Captain  Maurice Sutcliffe along with Shalom Fintchi in Croatia rather far from Romanian borders. In fact his training records and photos indicating that he was on the same team with SOE  agents trained for tasks in Yugoslavia rather Romania such as Yona Rozen , Ziablodovsky and Shalom Fintci, Hayim Yaari and Zadok Drugor w...