Failed OSS / OSE Ops in WWII

Introduction SOE Balkans          During the Second World War the human intelligence work of the service was complemented by various initiatives ,The cryptanalytic effort undertaken by the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), the bureau responsible for interception and decryption of foreign communications at Bletchley Park. (See above.) The extensive "double-cross" system run by MI5 to feed misleading intelligence to the Germans. Imagery intelligence activities conducted by the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit . GC&CS was the source of Ultra intelligence, which was very useful. The chief of SIS, Stewart Menzies, insisted on wartime control of codebreaking, and this gave him immense power and influence, which he used judiciously. By distributing the Ultra material collected by the Government Code & Cypher School, for the first time, MI6 became an important branch of the government. Extensive breaches of Nazi Enigma signals ...

"The only thing we learn from history Is that we learn nothing from history ! I am an aviation professional and historian since many years , residing in Central Europe . I’ve set this blog up to pay tribute to the men and women of OSS, SOE and SOE Palestine who did not hesitate to give their lives in WWII to enable us live in a better world and save us from the Nazi evil  nowadays however the history repeats ,so given we can travel beyond the wall of death and ask them  if under such circumstances and given they knew what has became of our world would they still chosen the ultimate sacrifice ? On this blog I present last updated info on failed OSS/ OSE Ops in the Balkans . I illustrate the entries with rare images from Palmach and IDF Archives , Yad Vah Shem Archives with updated  information from numerous books written about OSE and OSS  during WWII. Special thanks to my wife and all those who kept and keep helpping me with my research .

לזכרם של אבא ברדיטשוב והביווה רייק In the memory of Lt.Abba Berdichev and Haviva Reik  יהורם גאון - איפה הן הבחורות ההן Silk SOE flimsy escape chart C.Europe found on Ben Yaakov clothes  Special Duty Liberator B-24D ,RAF Airbase  Fayida , Egypt 1944 Zvy Ben Yakov +   (ldr) ( 1922 - 24.1.1945)  allias "2Lt M.Jamay RCAF " He was born as Heinrich Greenhut, son of Sarah and Jacob. His mother passed away when he was six. Until the age of 14, he studied sitting and then worked in a textile factory. At the same time, he joined a Zionist youth movement, first in Betar and later in "Azure White". Since adopting a Hebrew name - Zvi. At the age of 16 he went to pioneering training for immigration and a year later, in 1939, he immigrated to Israel. In Israel, he was educated as part of the Youth Aliyah at Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov and changed his surname to Ya'akov. He worked in the building industry and urged his hard-working friends...