List of Special Operations Executive operations

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates This is a list of Special Operations Executive operations in World War II.

Albania

Austria

  • Operation Bongo (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, Operation to secure a vault containing many of Europe's art treasures.
  • Clowder (1943–45) Template:Flagicon – Austria, establishment of an advance post to make contacts in central and eastern Europe, exploiting resistance movements, and looking especially to work in Austria and Germany.
  • Crowd (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 16 March investigation of general conditions of the underground socialist movement in the Sudetenland; fate unknown but thought to have been captured.
  • Danbury (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 13 August sabotage of enemy lines of communication in Drau valley, based at Klagenfurt; eventually returned to Bari.
  • Operation Denver (1944) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 8 May contact with resistance groups in Sudetenland and establishment of communications. All agents lost through betrayal.
  • Drybrook (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 13 August establishment of W/T links in east Tyrol; dropped in error to Germany and returned to UK.
  • Duncery (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 24 April preservation of Zeltweg Aerodrome for the Allies, in the event unnecessary through work of local anti-Nazi groups.
  • Duval (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 16 February to contact underground organisation in Salzburg and assist in sabotage; party captured.
  • Ebensburg (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 8 February organisation of local sabotage with Maquis; capture of Bad Aussee four days before US arrival.
  • Electra (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 23 March to contact the underground socialist movement, Vienna; W/T contact never established.
  • Evansville (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 7 February support to movement in Graz, and arrangement for agents in Italy; believed killed and underground organisation crushed.
  • Greenleaves (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 2 April group based at Klagenfurt; dropped successfully but documents and photos captured; evacuated to Bari.
  • Hamster (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 21 April arming of small resistance groups for attacks on road and rail transport; reported working in Klagenfurt.
  • Haras (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 30 July to join Communist underground in Innsbruck, establish radio links. Unsuccessful, W/T not dropped and agent attacked.
  • Historian (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 24 April attack against communication lines in Klagenfurt.
  • Pyx (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 13 June Klagenfurt to Vienna; for creation of safe houses, contact with the resistance locally, sabotage organisation; delay imposed by partisans and capture of information; eventually return of the party to Bari.
  • Seafront (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 12 October establishment of safe route to Salzburg and encouragement of resistance in Salzburg; dropped to Germany by mistake.
  • Temple (1945) Template:Flagicon – Austria, 13 August establishment of contacts in frontier area; fate unknown.

Belgium

France

Germany

  • Braddock I (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, dropping of incendiary devices by air for possible use by prisoners of war in an uprising.
  • Braddock II (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, dropping of propaganda information in Germany
  • Calvados (1943) Template:Flagicon – Germany, attempt to start a sabotage organisation in Hamburg and Bremen, using a German deserter, Kurt Koenig.
  • Colan (1945) Template:Flagicon – Germany, sabotage of railway between Stuttgart and Heilbronn, reports of success by agents.
  • Downend (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, agent sent to create a sabotage organisation in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area, based on a nucleus of contacts with the ISK.
  • Fleckney (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, -45, establishment of an organiser for sabotage in Breslau region.
  • Fordwick (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, establishment of a line for agents and information between Germany and Denmark.
  • Foxley (1944–45) Template:Flagicon – Germany, plan to assassinate Hitler pressed by SOE and supported by Duff Cooper. A full implementation and intelligence report was drawn up but was not taken forward; internal arguments against the assassination included the possibility of a resulting Hitler martyr cult; and, when the war would eventually be won, a lessening of the perception that Nazism had been decisively crushed by the Allies. In any event, plans to deal with Hitler's subordinates, including Goebbels, found favour but were not implemented (Operation Little Foxleys).
  • Frilford (1944) Template:Flagicon – Germany, -45, to sabotage railway track from Hintshingen to Oberlauchringen; reports from agents on success.
  • Vivacious (1944–45) Template:Flagicon – Germany, agent (2nd Lieutenant Baker Byrne) sent to sabotage the Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin, active in the production of V2 rocket components. Not successful, but agent managed to return to Britain.

Greece

India

Italy

Netherlands

North Africa

  • Falaise (1941) Template:Flagicon – Tangier, -42, destruction of an enemy wireless station used for providing locations of Allied submarines in the Straits of Gibraltar.

Norway

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  • Barbara (1941) Template:Flagdeco- Trondheim, sabotage train line between Trondheim and Storlien.
  • Redshank (1942) Template:Flagdeco- Orkanger, sabotage the transformer station to stop pyrite transportation from Orkla mines to the shipping harbor at Thamshavn.
  • Kestrel (1942) Template:Flagdeco- Fosdalen, sabotage the iron mine equipment to halt the increase in production.
  • Marshfield (1942) - Nesset, sabotage the Rødsand iron mines. SOE agents dispatched but disappeared after landing.
  • Chaffinch (1943) - Moss, sabotage shipping and make contact with resistance groups. SOE agents escaped after sinking a vessel.

Portugal

Spain

  • Defiance (1942–43) Template:Flagicon – Spain, attempt to build up 'traditionalist', probably Catalan, support in the Barcelona area.
  • Hollowshoes (1942) Template:Flagicon – Spain, -45, building up of a network by Emilio Varas Canal. The group took its name from the latter's girlfriend who proved her ability to create hollow heeled footwear.
  • Periwig (1944–45) Template:Flagicon – Spain, a plan for the planting of evidence on captured Germans (who would presumably be allowed to escape) which would lead to the belief that the real German underground resistance movement was being organised from Britain. There is no evidence in the file to suggest that it went ahead.
  • Pompey (?) Template:Flagicon – Spanish section plan for deception to suggest that the Allies intended to attack southern France or Greek islands.
  • Relator (1941–43) Template:Flagicon – Spain, name given to the training of a party of area commanders to be used in Spain; also appear to be known as "Ali Baba and the 20 thieves". Their purpose was to delay the enemy in any advance into Spain.
  • Reproach (1941–43) Template:Flagicon – Spain, general name for attempts to build up support among Spanish 'traditionalists' in the event of an invasion of Spain, in the Navarre area.
  • Warden (1941) Template:Flagicon – Spain, plan for the sabotage of eight enemy ships in Las Palmas harbour; no evidence that this was carried out.

Sweden

Yugoslavia

West Africa

Miscellaneous

  • Bandon (?) Template:Flagicon – The files include a report on the HQ in Turin and the liberation of the city.
  • Cabaret (1942) Template:Flagicon – An attempt to repeat Operation Rubble - abandoned.
  • Casement (1944) Template:Flagicon – A deception plan aimed at creating the belief that Germans were fleeing to Éire or Argentina to form a free German government. Suggested by the Spanish section during it did not go ahead through the lack of evidence of the Spanish escape connection considered necessary for its success.
  • Codford (?) Template:Flagicon – Name for all operations designed to prevent enemy states from seizing assets of neutral foreign countries.
  • Moonshine (1944) Template:Flagicon – Growing out of Operation Bridford, a partially successful operation to deliver arms to the Danish resistance and return via Sweden carrying war supplies.
  • Performance (1942) Template:Flagicon – An attempt to repeat Operation Rubble - partial success with heavy casualties.
  • Rankin (?) Template:Flagicon – Codeword for planning of operation in the event of German withdrawal from occupied countries.
  • Siamang (?) Template:Flagicon – Val Maria area, helping to coordinate anti-scorch measures to protect hydroelectric plants in the region.
  • Operation Remorse Template:Flagicon – An economic operation in Hong Kong and other parts of China, that included counterfeiting currency and smuggling, which generated over £77 million in profit for the SOE.

See also

References

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