The administrative divisions and clandestine circuits used for field operations.
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) maintained a dedicated Polish Section from 1940 to 1946, focusing on strengthening the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) through the deployment of specialized airborne soldiers known as the Cichociemni.
Section F (France) of the Special Operations Executive was a clandestine UK organization responsible for espionage, sabotage, and supporting the French Resistance from 1941 until the liberation of France. Before D-Day, it deployed hundreds of agents to disrupt Axis infrastructure and organize indigenous resistance groups.
The Polish Country Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) operated from 1940 to 1946, facilitating the infiltration of agents and supplies into occupied Poland in close cooperation with the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Home Army.
The Englandspiel (England Game), also known as Operation North Pole, was a devastating German counterintelligence operation from 1942 to 1944 that compromised the Special Operations Executive (SOE) networks in the Netherlands, leading to the capture and execution of dozens of agents.
Captain Peter Morland Churchill was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) officer who operated in occupied France during the Second World War. He is noted for his four infiltrations into France, his eventual capture and imprisonment in concentration camps, and his relationship with fellow agent Odette Sansom.
Eliane Plewman (1917–1944) was a British agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who served as a courier for the ‘Monk’ circuit in occupied France. She was captured by the Gestapo and executed at the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944.
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) maintained a complex presence in neutral Sweden during World War II, evolving from a contingency plan for resistance against Axis invasion into a sophisticated hub for economic intelligence and clandestine logistics.
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) coordinated subversive action and provided critical supplies, training, and intelligence to French Resistance groups to disrupt German defences and logistics ahead of the June 1944 Normandy landings.
Force 136 was the Far Eastern branch of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), tasked with conducting irregular warfare, intelligence gathering, and sabotage in occupied Burma and surrounding territories from 1941 to 1946.
The Prosper Network (also known as the Physician network) was the most significant SOE circuit in occupied France during 1943. Based in Paris and led by Francis Suttill, it grew to a massive scale before its sudden and catastrophic collapse in June 1943.