8 accounts found for “intelligence”
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...
23rd Headquarters Special Troops (Ghost Army)
The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops — known as the Ghost Army — was a unit of artists, actors, set designers, and sound engineers who used inflatable tanks, fa...
Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army
In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...
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...
Virginia Hall, SOE "Marie" / OSS Operative
A Baltimore-born woman with a prosthetic leg she named "Cuthbert" organized the most effective SOE resistance networks in occupied France, evading the Gestapo f...
Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski, Otriad Bielski, Naliboki Forest
Three Jewish brothers — Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski — fled to the Naliboki Forest in occupied Belarus in 1942 and organized a partisan group that ultimately s...