Detailed accounts of specific missions and strategic strikes.
Between 1940 and 1945, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) deployed over 500 agents into occupied Norway to conduct sabotage, assassination, and the organization of guerrilla warfare to disrupt Nazi control.
Operation Anthropoid was a coordinated Special Operations Executive (SOE) mission carried out in May 1942 to assassinate SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. The operation was executed by Czech paratroopers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, resulting in Heydrich’s death and severe Nazi reprisals in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Operation Savannah (or Savanna) was the first insertion of SOE-trained Free French paratroops into German-occupied France in March 1941. The mission aimed to assassinate pilots of the Luftwaffe’s Kampfgruppe 100 pathfinder wing to reduce the effectiveness of night raids on Britain.
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) operated a dedicated Czech Section to support resistance movements in occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. Its efforts focused on infiltrating agents, coordinating sabotage, and supporting local networks despite the stringent security of the German Protectorate.