A dangerous enterprise : secret war at sea
Spicer, Tim2021
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Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was called the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla: crewed by 125 officers and men, it became the most highly decorated Royal Naval unit of the Second World War. The 15th MGBF was an extraordinary group of men thrown together in the most secret of adventures. Their mission was to ferry agents of SIS and SOE to pinpoint landing sites on the Brittany coast in Occupied France. Once they had landed their agents, together with stores for the Resistance, they picked up evaders, escaped POWs who had had the good fortune to be collected by escape lines run by M19, as well as returning SIS and SOE agents. This book brings the story of this most clandestine of operations to life.
Main title:
A dangerous enterprise : secret war at sea / Tim Spicer.
Author:
Spicer, Tim, author
Imprint:
London : Barbreck Publishers, 2021.
Collation:
294 pages
ISBN:
9781999589134 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.545941
Local class:
940.545941
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3176032