Operation Sussex

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The operation Sussex was a military operation of the American secret Office of Strategic Services and the Forces Françaises Libres in the 1944th

In the run-up to the invasion of Normandy ( Operation Overlord ), French parachute agents were used to investigate German troop movements in France. Teams of two were deployed to report their observations to England by radio.

literature

  • Francis MacKay: Overture to Overlord: Special Operations in Preparations for D-Day. Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley South Yorkshire 2005.
  • Patrick K. O'Donnell: Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS. Simon and Schuster, New York 2004.
  • R. Harris Smith: OSS: The Secret History Of America's First Central Intelligence Agency. Globe Pequot, Guilford, CT 1972.
  • Dominique Soulier: Le plan Sussex: Opération ultra-secrète tripartite américano-franco-britannique, 1943–1944. Hirlé, Strasbourg 2009.

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