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21France Antelme — Major Joseph Antoine France Antelme OBE (March 12, 1900 September 12, 1944) was one of 14 Franco Mauritians who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a World War II British secret service that sent spies, saboteurs and guerrilla… …
22Francis Suttill — Major Francis Alfred Suttill DSO (March 17, 1910 ndash; March 23, 1945) was a British special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France. He organized and coordinated the Physician network, better known by his own… …
23D. B. Cooper in popular culture — A 1972 FBI composite drawing of D. B. Cooper D. B. Cooper (aka Dan Cooper) is an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, parachuted from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying… …
24Pierre de Vomécourt — Pierre de Crevoisier de Vomécourt (1 January 1906, Chassey lès Montbozon, Haute Saône [Source : Patrice Miannay, p. 227.] 1986) was, during the Second World War, a Special Operations Executive agent, who founded and headed SOE s first Resistance… …
25Ridgway, Matthew Bunker — ▪ 1994 general (ret.), U.S. Army (b. March 3, 1895, Fort Monroe, Va. d. July 26, 1993, Fox Chapel, Pa.), was a valiant leader and brilliant strategist who parachuted with his troops into Sicily (July 1943) during World War II, therewith… …
26Czernin, Count Manfred Beckett — Count Manfred Beckett Czernin Nickname Manfred Beckett Born January 18, 1913(1913 01 18) Berlin, Imperial Germany Died October 6, 1962( …
27Maquis du Haut-du-Bois — The Maquis du Haut du Bois, also known as the Maquis d Éloyes, was a combat unit of the French forces of the interior within the Maquis des Vosges. The unit made a large contribution towards liberating the Éloyes region. Armed operations by the… …
28Oliver Churchill — William Oliver Churchill Bust of Oliver Churchill by Daphne Henrion …
29parachute — ▪ I. parachute par‧a‧chute 1 [ˈpærəʆuːt] ➔ golden parachute [m0] ▪ II. parachute parachute 2 verb [intransitive] informal HUMAN RESOURCES if someone parachutes or is par …
30Ariel Sharon — אריאל שרון Ariel Sharon at the Pentagon in May 2002. 11th Prime Minister of Israel In office 7 March 2001 – 14 April 2006 …
