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French Resistance
collective term for organizations that fought against Nazi German occupation and collaborationist rule in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Special Operations Executive
British intelligence agency
maquis
World War Two French resistance groups
Welrod
The Welrod is a British bolt-action, magazine-fed pistol with an integrated suppressor that was devised for covert operations during the Second World War by Major Hugh Reeves at the Inter-Services Research Bureau (later Station IX).
Milorg
Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of goods imported to the country, release of Norwegian prisoners and escort for citizens fleeing the border to neutral Sweden.
Norwegian Independent Company 1
British Special Operations Executive (SOE) group formed in March 1941
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958 film by Lewis Gilbert
Welbike
The Welbike is a British single-seat folding motorcycle produced during World War II at the direction of Station IX — the "Inter Services Research Bureau" — based at Welwyn, UK, for use by Special Operations Executive (SOE). It has the distinction of being the smallest motorcycle ever used by the British Armed Forces. Between 1942 and 1943, 3,641 units (plus a prototype and some pilot models) were built and, although not much used by the SOE, some were issued to the British 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions and some were used at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden.
explosive rat
weapon developed by the British Special Operations Executive in World War II for use against Germany
Baker Street Irregulars
fictional characters in Sherlock Holmes stories
Radio Londres
British radio station
Comet line
Belgian resistance group
Norwegian Naval Independent Unit
1941–45 Norwegian special operations unit
Force 136
military unit
Saborg (Osvald Group)
resistance organization in German-occupied Norway (1940–44)
Oslogjengen
Oslogjengen (lit. The Oslo Gang, also called '''Kompani Linge's Oslo Detachment''') was a sabotage group operating in Oslo from May 1944 to May 1945, during the last year of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. The group had its basis in both the British Special Operations Executive and the Norwegian Milorg, was coordinated by Gunnar Sønsteby, and had around ten members. It was the dominant sabotage group in Oslo between May and September 1944, when they performed a series of successful sabotage operations.
Englandspiel
thumb|right|200px|"Englandspiel Monument" or The Fall of Icarus (by ) in The Hague memorializes the 54 agents who were dropped into the Netherlands during Das Englandspiel. The inscription says, in part "They jumped to their death for our freedom."
British Security Co-ordination
intelligence agency
Jean Pierre-Bloch
French politician (1905-1999)
No. 138 Squadron RAF
British Royal Air Force squadron
Yvon Morandat
French politician and resistance fighter (1913–1972)
BSA Welgun
type of Submachine gun
No. 161 Squadron RAF
squadron of the Royal Air Force
Camp X
training installation