Airborne Espionage (eBook)

International Special Duties Operations in the World Wars

David Oliver (Autor)

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2005
252 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9552-1 (ISBN)

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Operating in all weathers, invariably at night, often at low level and usually without fighter escort, Allied 'Special Duties' (SD) squadrons and units played a vital role in the Second World War. By their very nature, these operations went unreported in wartime and for considerable time thereafter, but their importance in prosecuting the war of resistance in Occupied Europe was immense.
Emerging from a time of rudimentary communications and transport, dedicated air units had been established by 1939 to fly agents into enemy territory, but their aircraft were hand-me-downs and the SD was considered a poor third to fighter and bomber operations. However, the tasks undertaken by these men and their aircraft were often more hazardous and demanding than any other type of wartime flying: for every SOS, SIS or OSS agent who lost their life in the field, at least one RAF or USAAF airman was killed while flying SD operations.
Here, David Oliver examines the exploits of British, Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian and Japanese airmen and units, supported by first-hand accounts and archive photographs.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2005
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1914 • 1918 • abyssinia • Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment • Aircraft • Air Forces Monthly • Air Intelligence Branch • airmen • algiers • American • aviation • Boa • BOAC • British • British Long Range Desert Groups • British Overseas Airways Corporation • Bureau d'Operations Aeriennes • Bureau d'Operations Aeriennes, BOA, Coast Watching Organisation, Dachau, First-Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Luftwaffe, Junkers, Messerschmitt, military, Special Operations Executive, SOE, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Air Forces Monthly, Global Defence Review • Central Intelligence Agency • CIA • Coast Watching Organisation • Commonwealth • Dachau • First-Aid Nursing Yeomanry • First World War • Free European • German • Global Defence Review • Great War • Homing pigeons • Intelligence • Italian • Japanese • junkers • LRDG • LRDG|Bureau d'Operations Aeriennes • Luftwaffe • Messerschmitt • Military • Office of Strategic Services • RAF • Royal Air Force • Royal Flying Corps • Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, Office of Strategic Services, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Air Intelligence Branch, Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment, Abyssinia, Algiers, British Long Range Desert Groups, British Overseas Airways Corporation, BOAC, LRDG • Royal Naval Air Service • SD • Secret Intelligence Service • Secret Intelligence Service|Royal Flying Corps • SOE • soviet • Special Duties squadrons • Special Duties squadrons, First World War, Great War, World War One, WWI, World War I, 1914, 1918, spies, aircraft, aviation, homing pigeons, intelligence, RAF, Royal Air Force, SD, airmen, British, Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian, Japanese, Secret Intelligence Service • Special Operations Executive • Spies • Women's Auxiliary Air Force • World War I • World War One • wwi
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9552-6 / 0752495526
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9552-1 / 9780752495521