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41Operation Jedburgh — Jedburghs on a high bars at an obstacle course in Milton Hall, England Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II, in which personnel of the British Special Operations Executive, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the… …
42Cichociemni — (Polish pronunciation: [t͡ɕixɔˈt͡ɕɛmɲi]; the Silent Dark Ones or The Unseen and Silent [1]) were elite special operations paratroops of the Polish Home Army (Polish: Cichociemnych Spadochroniarzy A K)[1] of the Polish Army in exile, created… …
43André Dewavrin — Andre Dewavrin (9 June 1911, Paris – 21 December 1998) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II. He was born in Paris, the son of a businessman. He graduated as an army engineer and in 1938 …
44Edgard Potier — Dominique Edgard Antoine Potier ( 1903 1944) was a Belgian airforce officer during World War II who participated in a combat rescue program known as Mission Martin in Belgium the Possum Line in France. Captured and tortured by the Germans, Potier …
45Dick Rubenstein — Major Richard Arthur Rubinstein MC TD (born 29 August 1921) is a retired British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma.Personal lifeRubinstein was born in Baker… …
46Greek People's Liberation Army — Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός Participant in the Greek Resistance and the Dekemvriana Active 1942–1945 Leaders Aris Velouchiotis (chief captain) Stefanos Sarafis (chief military officer) Andreas Tzimas (chief pol …
47George Weller — ‘otheruses4|the writer|the elderly motorist in a fatal car accident|George Russell WellerGeorge Anthony Weller (1907 ndash;2002) was an American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily… …
48Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group — Infobox Military Unit unit name=Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV SOG) caption=Never assigned an official crest or patch, SOG personnel accepted this unofficial self designed insignia dates= 24 January,… …
49Alchiviad Diamandi di Samarina — or Alkiviadis Diamandi or Alcibiade Diamandi (sometimes spelled Diamanti , Diamandis , Diamanthis or Diamantis ) (Samarina, Greece, August 13, 1893 mdash; Bucharest, July 9, 1948) was an Aromanian (Vlach) political figure of Greece, active during …
50Albanian Subversion — The Albanian Subversion is one of the earliest and most notable failures of the Western covert paramilitary operations behind the Iron Curtain. Based on wrong assessments about Albania, and thinking that the country was ready to shake off its… …
