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AJEX parade, Whitehall and Cenotaph
AJEX parade, Whitehall and Cenotaph

benefit from a mutually rewarding relationship with AJEX and in particular with their archivist, Martin Sugarman. Dan

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SECRET WW2 annual conference
SECRET WW2 annual conference

– EARLY YEARS, a short introduction, outlining Andrée’s childhood and hobbies, presented by Paul...

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Armistice Day French ceremony
Armistice Day French ceremony

service afterwards, at the Memorial to the Missing...

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Events

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How to learn of our upcoming events
  • October 15, 2025
  • 00:00
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 2 VALENÇAY
  • May 6, 2024
  • 11:00
  • F Section Memorial, Carr Bénévent,
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
COMMEMORATIONS IN FRANCE FOR F (FRENCH) SECTION SOE – PT 1 ROMORANTIN-LANTHENAY
  • May 5, 2024
  • 16:00
  • Quai de l'Île Marin, Romorantin-Lanthenay
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
CRANLEIGH AND THE SECRET WAR – EXHIBITION TO 4TH MAY 2024
  • April 23, 2024
  • 10:00
  • Cranleigh Arts, Surrey

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The 16th episode of the HISTORY channel’s 20-part documentary series, “World War II with Tom Hanks,” which is about resistance movements, refers to the Jedburgh teams but makes no mention of OSS or that Operation Jedburgh was an OSS operation. It also claims that “the night before D-Day, dozens of Allied agents are dropped behind German lines to coordinate with groups of the French Resistance, so-called Jedburgh teams.” 

This is incorrect. Only one Jedburgh team, HUGH, jumped into France before the D-Day invasion began. 

In an earlier episode about intelligence (“Secrets and Lies”), OSS merited a single sentence and only to give the British credit for its creation.

The Jedburghs are featured in our short documentary, “Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle for France”: https://vimeo.com/1017308385/4a5209382f

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Secret WW2 was pleased and proud to have partnered with The Jockey Club and The Shuttleworth Collection for our commemorative event at the former RAF Newmarket on June 9th; with the bonus that The Jockey Club produced this special film which was broadcast yesterday afternoon during ITV’s live racing coverage from Newmarket …
Newmarket’s Secret War: The Return of the Westland Lysander Newmarket’s Secret War: The Return of the Westland Lysander
3pm today, Thursday, 9th July - ITV1, racing fro⁹m Newmarket, will feature a short film recording a very special ceremony and event initiated by The Secret WW2 Learning Network and generously supported and hosted by The Jockey Club and The Shuttleworth Collection.
3pm today, Thursday, 9th July - ITV1, racing fro⁹m Newmarket, will feature a short film recording a very special ceremony and event initiated by The Secret WW2 Learning Network and generously supported and  hosted by The Jockey Club and The Shuttleworth Collection.
“He became one of the 120 Frenchmen recruited to the OSS operation known as Sussex. Parachuted into strategic areas of France, they would blend in to the local population and funnel intelligence back to Allied forces in anticipation of the D-Day landings. “Armed with a Colt .45 and fluency in four languages, Rene Joyeuse spent five months undercover near German-occupied Paris for an American spy agency during World War II ....” https://wapo.st/4fnnXhA/
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Title image – B24 ‘Carpetbagger’ conducting parachute drop. Courtesy of Clive Bassett, Harrington Aviation Museum –  https://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/