#MI6, #FO1093/292, #Vichy, #SIS, #SOE, #SHAEF, Document Source: Special Operations in preparation of Operation Overlord. Elimination of the Top German Commanders. Archive EUCMH via BAM USA. (Note Raw Archive) Foreword About this document: British Foreign Office File on Assassination Priorities for Operation Overlord dated twenty-one days before the D-Day launch of Operation Overlord, the first memo in a file designated as FO 1093/292, has the subject 'Assassination Priorities for Overlord', and states, The Chief of Staff has asked me to look into this, and to advise him about suitable candidates to whom attention might be paid, prior to, on and after D-Day....

Lidice: In Memoriam, Lidice uchytilova pomnik detskych obeti Lidice. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was norn in Halle and der Saale on Mar 7, 1904. He was SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei; Chief of the Reich Security Office; Geheimstadtpolizei (Gestapo); Kriminalpolizei (Kripo); Sicherheitsdienst (SD); Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia; President of the ICPC (Interpol); Main Architect of the Holocaust; Chairman in Jan 1942, of the Wannsee Conference and finally eliminated on Jun 4, 1942. Many historians regard him as the darkest figure within the Nazi elite. Even Adolf Hitler himself, described him as the man with the iron heart. He was the...

Document Source US National Archives OSS Glossary of Initialisms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms Office of Strategic Services Records (Record Group 226) World War Two. A-2 - Air Intelligence, US Army AAF - Army Air Forces ABDA - American-British-Dutch-Australian Command Abwehr - German Military Intelligence ACC - Allied Control Commission AFHQ - Allied Forces Headquarters (Mediterranean Theater of Operations) AFO - Anti-Fascist Organizations, Burma AFPFL - Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, Burma AGFRTS - Air-Ground Force Resources and Technical Staff, (one OSS China Commands/ AI - Air Intelligence, British Air Ministry AIB - Allied Intelligence Bureau AKAK - Trans-Pyrenees chain of agents operated by OSS, Spain ALFSEA - Allied Land Forces Southeast Asia ALIU - Art Looting Investigative Unit, OSS ALOT...

Become a Part of the Project and Upload Abbreviations (Mil WW-2 to the Webserver for publication- Thank You Raw Archives - Military Abbreviations as used in World War Two. Canada ADGB - Air Defence of Great Britain AVRE - Assault vehicle, Royal Engineers Bde - Brigade BEF - British Expeditionary Force BST - British summertime CA - Civil Affairs CAOF - Canadian Army Occupation Force Capt - Captain CB - Companion of the Order of the Bath CBE - Companion of the Order of the British Empire Cdn - Canadian CGS - Chief of the General Staff CiC - Commander-in-Chief CMG - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMHQ - Canadian...

Document Source: OSS FBI File about Operation Pastorius, a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for the leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in America. Despite the Quaker sympathies of Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651–1720), his name was appropriated in 1942 by the German Abwehr as the codename of the Operation in the USA known as Operation Pastorius. After the Japanese...

Special Operations Executive (SOE) Codes Operations in Europe Doc Snafu - Prélude The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organization formed during World War II to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe and Asia. Established in July 1940 under the directive of PM Winston Churchill, the SOE was tasked with aiding resistance movements, disrupting enemy operations, and undermining Axis control in occupied territories. Its motto, Set Europe Ablaze, epitomized its mission of fostering insurgency against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. Formation and Structure The SOE operated independently from Britain's traditional intelligence agencies like MI6. It recruited personnel from...

Document Source: (OSS File) Memo copy is from the RID/ATI file folder on Adolf Hitler filed under Wah X-2 Personalities #13; the folder contains 1 copy of a 28-page report on Heinrich Himmler in addition to the 68-page paper on Hitler of which the attached copy is an extra one extracted for inclusion, with the memo, in the Hitler 201 file (if not already duplicated therein): 201-93533 - EUCMH Foreword - Background & Family Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (Austria today), close to the border with the German Empire. He...

Document source: Wild Bill Donovan OSS File, World War Two, German Capitulation Northern Italy Gen William Joseph 'Wild Bill' Donovan (Jan 1, 1883 – Feb 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer, and diplomat, best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley (Virginia). A decorated veteran of World War I, Donovan is the only person...

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on June 15, 2025. Pélude The Jedburghs were three-man teams parachuted into occupied France after D-Day to develop liaison with the Resistance. They were truly inter-allied, French (103), Belgian (5), Dutch (5), British (90) and American (83). Each of the 93 teams included a Frenchman, with the remaining two members divided more or less equally between British and American officers. Jedburg Missions: (Officially) the mission of the Jedburgh teams was to supplement existing OSS/SOE ‘circuits,’ to help organize and arm the resistance, arrange...