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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 7h
Ordinary Seaman Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean VC (Royal Australian Navy) during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/01/o...
Ordinary Seaman Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean VC (Royal Australian Navy) during WW2
‘Teddy’ Sheean was a farm labourer before he joined the Royal Australian Navy Reserve on 21 April 1941 as an Ordinary Seaman and four of his brothers were already serving in the Austral…
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Private Ian Ray (Australian Army) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/01/08/p...
Private Ian Ray (Australian Army)
19 year old Private Ian Ray 19-year-old Ian Ray from Melbourne Australia, was serving with the 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion, Australian Army when he was wounded in the left arm during the Battle of …
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Sergeant John Austin, wireless operator with Jedburgh team DUDLEY: Netherlands 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/17/s...
Sergeant John Austin, wireless operator with Jedburgh team DUDLEY: Netherlands 1944
Whilst serving with the Royal Berkshire Regiment John Austin volunteered to join the Jedburgh Teams (Jed’s) which were formed to operate in various occupied countries to assist local resistan…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 8h
Operation Jericho (aka Jail Breakers) February 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/08/07/o...
Operation Jericho (aka Jail Breakers) February 1944
At the request of the French Resistance on 18 February 1944 British and Canadian Mosquito fighter -bombers with Typhoon fighter escorts were tasked with destroying SS barracks and machine gun posit…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 8h
The crew of USAAF B-17 ‘Mi Amigo’ 22 February 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/10/06/t...
The crew of USAAF B-17 ‘Mi Amigo’ 22 February 1944
On 20 February 1944 a B-17 bomber (Flying Fortress) which the crew called ‘Mi Amigo’ was part of the 305th Bombardment Group, US 8th Army Airforce based at Chelveston Airfield in Northamptonshire a…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 9h
HMS Sheffield (D80) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/05/04/h...
HMS Sheffield (D80)
HMS Sheffield. On this day 4 May 1982 HMS Sheffield was sunk during the Falklands War. The 20 men who died in alphabetical order:Lt Cdr David BalfourPOMEM(M) David Briggs, who was awarded a posthum…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Odette Churchill, George Cross, Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (SOE French Section) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/10/21/o...
Odette Churchill, George Cross, Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (SOE French Section)
Odette ABC News A short video interview of Odette  shown on British television in 1980. Odette speaks about being a prisoner in concentration camps ,  and how she coped with torture and weeks …
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Pearl Cornioley (nee Witherington) SOE French Section – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/09/26/p...
Pearl Cornioley (nee Witherington) SOE French Section
On the night of 22-23 September 1943 Witherington arrived by parachute to a reception committee on farmland near Tendu, France and became the courier of STATIONARY circuit and supported another SOE…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Sonia May Malkine who served with the French Resistance during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/02/19/s...
Sonia May Malkine who served with the French Resistance during WW2
Sonia Malkine talks about her war service with the French Resistance.
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Lepa Radic Yugoslav Partisan, Order of the People’s Hero – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/08/11/l...
Lepa Radic Yugoslav Partisan, Order of the People’s Hero
Radic was born to a Bosnian Serb family on 29 December 1925. In February 1943 she was captured during a firefight against the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prince Eugen and was tortured for se…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Mary Lindell: MI9? Agent in Occupied France- Her escape from the Gestapo – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/06/29/m...
Mary Lindell: MI9? Agent in Occupied France- Her escape from the Gestapo
In this short interview Mary Lindell describes her escaped from the Gestapo. Yvonne Baseden who shared a cell with Mary Lindell
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
SOE Agents Henry and Alfred Newton (the twins) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/07/30/s...
SOE Agents Henry and Alfred Newton (the twins)
At SOE headquarters in London brothers Henry and Alfred Newton were affectionally referred to as the twins although there was a large age difference. Before joining SOE their parents, wives and chi…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Francis André aka Gueule Tordue, Twisted Face and Crooked Mouth: Klaus Barbie’s most loyal collaborator. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/01/31/f...
Francis André aka Gueule Tordue, Twisted Face and Crooked Mouth: Klaus Barbie’s most loyal collaborator.
Francis André (Musée de la Résistance Nationale) Much has been written about Hauptsturmfuhrer Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon who became known as the “Butcher of Lyon” aft…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Adolphe Deniset: Weapons instructor SOE F (French Section) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/a...
Adolphe Deniset: Weapons instructor SOE F (French Section)
Adolphe François was a French Canadian whose parent unit was the Royal Canadian Artillery who began his SOE selection and training in October 1943. His training assessment describes him as very int…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Eugene Bec: SOE weapons instructor French Section Special Operations Executive (SOE) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/11/27/a...
Eugene Bec: SOE weapons instructor French Section Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Eugene Bec (field names Hughes, Borer, Raymond Perrin, Francis Eugene Labrousse) was born in England and had duel British and French nationality. He received his secondary education in Boulogne and…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 10h
Four Square Laundry: Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) surveillance and intelligence during the 1970s. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/12/f...
Four Square Laundry: Northern Ireland (Operation Banner) surveillance and intelligence during the 1970s.
Intelligence operations during Banner remain a closely guarded secret, true accounts have often been replaced by Sinn Féin/IRA propaganda and the Four Square Laundry is a good example of the propag…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 11h
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Suhren Commandant of Ravensbrûck concentration camp July 1942 to April 1945. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/07/14/s...
SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Fritz Suhren Commandant of Ravensbrûck concentration camp July 1942 to April 1945.
During 1928 Fritz Suhren joined the Nationalists Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) commonly referred to as the NAZI party and was also a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) noted for its extreme…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 11h
Hitler’s Spies in Great Britain: Operation Lena – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/09/26/h...
Hitler’s Spies in Great Britain: Operation Lena
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 11h
MI5 at War (Countering German Spies and the double-cross system during WW2) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/09/26/m...
MI5 at War (Countering German Spies and the double-cross system during WW2)
(Time watch: The Spies that Fooled Hitler World War II)
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 11h
German Spies Executed at the Tower of London During the Two World Wars – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/05/26/g...
German Spies Executed at the Tower of London During the Two World Wars
Tower of London During WW2 The Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror during the 1070’s and later became infamous as a prison, a place of torture and execution under the Tudors and is n…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 11h
German Spies Executed at the Tower of London During the Two World Wars – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/05/26/g...
German Spies Executed at the Tower of London During the Two World Wars
Tower of London During WW2 The Tower of London was built by William the Conqueror during the 1070’s and later became infamous as a prison, a place of torture and execution under the Tudors and is n…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 13h
Victoria Cross awarded posthumously on the testimony from an enemy officer. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/10/17/v...
Victoria Cross awarded posthumously on the testimony from an enemy officer.
(Royal New Zealand Air Force) VC awarded solely on the testimony from the enemy. Nola Trigg showing her children, John and Wayne, their late fathers’ medals, the Victoria Cross and Distinguis…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 13h
John Hannah VC – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2019/09/19/j...
John Hannah VC
John Hannah was born on 27 November 1921 in Paisley Scotland and joined the RAF in 1939. After being trained as a wireless operator and air gunner in 1940 he was promoted to sergeant and assigned t…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 14h
British Homefront during WW2. The day the Luftwaffe bombed Sandhurst Road School in London. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/09/08/b...
British Homefront during WW2. The day the Luftwaffe bombed Sandhurst Road School in London.
At 12:30 pm on Wednesday 20 January 1943 Sandhurst Road School, Minard Road in Catford southeast London was packed with children when a German aircraft dropped a 500 kilogram (1,100 lb) high explos…
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Alan Malcher @alanmalcher.bsky.social · 14h
British Homefront during the Second World War: The London Underground. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/07/08/b...
British Homefront during the Second World War: The London Underground.
London Underground Station during the BlitzIt has been estimated around 177,000 people used London Underground stations as air raid shelters during the German aerial bombardment of London, but the …
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