By Brook Richards
This authoritative ebook through the authentic historian, the past due Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that came about in the course of global warfare II. The account has been made attainable via Sir Brooks' entry to closed executive files, mixed along with his personal wartime reviews and the memories of a lot of these involved.
In addition to operations off French North Africa, this moment quantity additionally comprises descriptions of operations within the Adriatic round Italy. greater than half the 390 operations in Italian and adjoining waters have been performed through Italian vessels with Italian crews. It was once a contribution to the Allied conflict attempt, which ought to not be forgotten.
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This would require that notice be given by Krajewski to Wysoczanski and would be possible only for small parties. OPERATIONS FROM GIBRALTAR TO MOROCCO: JULY TO OCTOBER 1941 31 (d) Visas for neutral states via Lisbon: the British authorities had promised to evacuate most of the Poles from Portugal and, when this had been done, the Portuguese would be more likely to grant transit visas. (e) The chartering of a Portuguese ship in Casablanca. In this case Portuguese visas would not be necessary: the ship would officially be sailing for Tangiers but would in fact go to Gibraltar.
However, two other operations were, according to Slocum’s 1946 report, carried out before Fidelity returned to the first pinpoint for a further attempt to embark the British evaders and escapers. She tried twice—on 20 and 21 September—but again failed. The SOE files provide confirmation that four of their agents were successfully landed in the course of this voyage. R. Dubourdin—all of whom were destined to join the de Vomécourt brothers’ AUTOGYRO circuit, the first such group that SOE’s independent F Section had got going.
Slocum’s idea from the outset was to use her for clandestine sea-transport operations in the western Mediterranean. The refit at Barry was carried out under the direction of Langlais and with the help of one of Slocum’s staff officers, Lt Patrick Whinney, RNVR. Whinney, like his colleague Steven Mackenzie, had been a member of the British Naval Mission at Admiral Darlan’s headquarters at the Château de Maintenon before the fall of France. When they reached London and reported for duty at the Admiralty, they were sent by Ian Fleming, special assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, to join Slocum’s Section of SIS (Special Intelligence Service).