7 accounts found for “British”
Soldiers of the 853rd Engineer Aviation Battalion (HMT Rohna)
On November 26, 1943, a German guided missile sank the troop transport HMT Rohna off Algeria, killing 1,015 American soldiers — the largest loss of American tro...
Joachim Rønneberg and the six-man Gunnerside team, SOE/Kompani Linge
In February 1943, six Norwegian saboteurs trained by British SOE parachuted into the mountains of Telemark, skied for days in Arctic conditions to reach the Vem...
Glyndwr Michael ("Major William Martin"); Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu, XX Committee
In 1943, British intelligence took the body of a Welsh vagrant who had died of pneumonia, dressed him as a Royal Marine officer named "Major William Martin," lo...
Jozef Gabčík & Jan Kubiš, SOE-trained Czech paratroopers
Reinhard Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, architected the Holocaust, and was considered the most dangerous man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In May 1...
Fritz Kolbe ("George Wood"), German Foreign Ministry; Allen Dulles, OSS Bern
In August 1943, German Foreign Office official Fritz Kolbe walked unannounced into the British legation in Bern and offered to hand over top secret Nazi communi...
Sir Nicholas Winton MBE
In December 1938, 29-year-old British stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a ski holiday and traveled to Prague, where he single-handedly organized the rescue a...
Sophie Scholl (b. May 9, 1921 – d. February 22, 1943) and Hans Scholl, White Rose
On February 18, 1943, Munich university student Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets by shoving a stack off a balcony....