The Secret WW2 Learning Network is an educational charity registered in the UK  - a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)         No. 1156796
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    • Operation Corona
    • Engagement Ring
    • Major Richard Rubinstein
    • Captain Paul Raymond Elie Tessier
    • Commander Kenneth Cohen
    • Flight Sergeant Arthur Stokes DFM
    • Irena Piwarska - by Magda Thomas
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  • RESOURCES

    • Books - Trustees' recommendations
    • SOE history
    • Explore SOE
    • Before Tempsford - early SD Sqn history
    • Tempsford SD Squadrons (138 & 161)
    • RAF 148 (Special Duties) Sqn FB group
    • Operation Gunnerside
    • Three special books
    • SAS history
    • RAF Escaping Society
    • Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS)
    • OSS history (CIA web site)
    • OSS history
    • OSS 75th anniversary
    • OSS OGs (Operational Groups)
    • OSS Station Victor (in Hurley)
    • Americans at Bletchley Park
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    Valençay 2018: Annual ceremony at the SOE French Section memorial
    • May 7, 2018

    Valençay 2018: Annual ceremony at the SOE French Section memorial

    The annual memorial ceremony at the SOE French Section memorial takes place every May 6th, and commences at 11am with official attendees...
    Summer events programme confirmed
    • Apr 26, 2018

    Summer events programme confirmed

    SPIES ON THE COMMON Tuesday 29th May 2018, at Battersea Library Talk: MI5's London Reception Centre (LRC) during WW2, at Wandsworth's...
    Fred 'the Jed' Bailey Ld'H, CdG featured in BBC One's ninety minute "RAF at 100
    • Mar 26, 2018

    Fred 'the Jed' Bailey Ld'H, CdG featured in BBC One's ninety minute "RAF at 100

    Fred Bailey Ld'H, CdG - the SOE veteran who served in Jedburgh Team Citroen in France and Force 136 in Burma - was featured in the BBC...
    MOULIN TO MELAY:                              aka RESISTANCE BY MOONLIGHT -  75th anniversary event
    • Mar 21, 2018

    MOULIN TO MELAY: aka RESISTANCE BY MOONLIGHT - 75th anniversary event

    On Monday 19th March the University of Chichester, in partnership with the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum and The Secret WW2 Learning...
    WW2 Historical Memory Freedom Trails over the Basque Pyrenees
    • Mar 11, 2018

    WW2 Historical Memory Freedom Trails over the Basque Pyrenees

    The Basque Pyrenees Freedom Trails' Association (BPFTA) invites you to participate in the “Schepens-Sarotxar” historical memory trail...
    Paris pilgrimage for the Libre Résistance AGM and conference
    • Jan 28, 2018

    Paris pilgrimage for the Libre Résistance AGM and conference

    One of The Secret WW2 Learning Network’s partners is Libre Résistance, or more properly the Fédération Nationale Libre Résistance, which...
    American agent of French Section, SOE remembered at Brookwood Military Cemetery
    • Nov 12, 2017

    American agent of French Section, SOE remembered at Brookwood Military Cemetery

    Following hard on the heels of the commemoration of two Canadian agents at Brookwood on 11th November 2017, another French Section agent,...
    Armistice Day tribute to Operation Aquatint
    • Nov 11, 2017

    Armistice Day tribute to Operation Aquatint

    Just over seventy-five years ago - on September 12/13th 1942 - three men from SOE’s Small Scale Raiding Force (No. 62 Commando) were...
    Canadian agents of French Section SOE honoured at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey
    • Nov 11, 2017

    Canadian agents of French Section SOE honoured at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey

    The annual Armistice Day remembrance event held at Brookwood by the Canadian High Commission and the Canadian Armed Forces had, for the...
    Dadland: The exploits of 'Lawrence of Burma' and the Jedburgh teams come to SW France
    • Oct 21, 2017

    Dadland: The exploits of 'Lawrence of Burma' and the Jedburgh teams come to SW France

    At this year's FESTILITT literary festival in Parisot (Tarn-et-Garonne) the award-winning writer Keggie Carew was interviewed on stage...
    Talks and films at Brighton College also pay tribute to its "scholastically useless" alumn
    • Oct 6, 2017

    Talks and films at Brighton College also pay tribute to its "scholastically useless" alumn

    Co-founder Martyn Cox recently gave two presentations at Brighton College to students from its 4th, 5th, and 6th Forms. These were...
    Escape from Kefalonia: commemoration of submarine tragedy and MI9 rescue
    • Oct 1, 2017

    Escape from Kefalonia: commemoration of submarine tragedy and MI9 rescue

    When the family of Trustee Paul McCue settled on a September holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, they hadn’t expected their luggage...
    CWGC's unique screening of classic SOE film
    • Sep 30, 2017

    CWGC's unique screening of classic SOE film

    At what was the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s first-ever outdoor cinema event in a war cemetery, several members of the Secret WW2...
    Centre for Franco-British Relations in  Ouistreham Riva-Bella, Normandy
    • Sep 25, 2017

    Centre for Franco-British Relations in Ouistreham Riva-Bella, Normandy

    The first meeting of the 'academic experts' who've been helping develop Ouistreham Riva-Bella's CENTRE DES RELATIONS FRANCO-BRITTANIQUES...
    Positive news from Tempsford
    • Sep 19, 2017

    Positive news from Tempsford

    Anyone with an interest in the former RAF airfield at Tempsford in Bedfordshire - and in particular with the operations flown from there...
    Operation Aquatint: 75th anniversary tribute
    • Sep 15, 2017

    Operation Aquatint: 75th anniversary tribute

    Seventy-five years ago this week three men from SOE’s Small Scale Raiding Force (No. 62 Commando) were killed during a night time...
    Special visits to Brookwood Military Cemetery and Wanborough Manor
    • Sep 9, 2017

    Special visits to Brookwood Military Cemetery and Wanborough Manor

    This year’s now-traditional SWW2LN ’walk and talk’ at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey (where many SOE agents are commemorated on...
    SOE in Burma
    • Aug 17, 2017

    SOE in Burma

    When Secret WW2 supporter Dr Richard Duckett proudly announced the forthcoming publication of his first book, 'The Special Operations...
    "Treating Odette" at The Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate
    • Jul 23, 2017

    "Treating Odette" at The Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate

    SECRET WW2 recently ventured into the London fringe arts and theatre scene, thanks to a remarkable coincidence recently discovered during...
    Battlefield Study Tour by twenty-two members of the Royal Military Police's Specialist Operation
    • Jul 8, 2017

    Battlefield Study Tour by twenty-two members of the Royal Military Police's Specialist Operation

    This Charity's co-founder Martyn Cox and historian Trustee Paul McCue were closely involved with a cross-channel battlefield study tour...
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    The Secret WW2 Learning Network (aka 'Secret WW2')
    is an educational charity registered in the UK  - a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
    No. 1156796
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