Helen Fry | WWII Historian
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Author & Historian of WWII, espionage & spies. Expert on Secret Listeners and Women in Intelligence. Pre-order 'X Troop Commando': amzn.to/3WWPMEi
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Thank you to everyone who entered to win signed copies of my new book "Why I Became an X Troop Commando"! The competition is now closed and I'll be announcing winners on Monday 9th September! Yale University Press London📚
Projected on a building in Arnhem....stunning! Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 you seen this yet? #arnhem
UK SERE adapts MI9’s IS9(WEA) patch. For more on MI9: 👉MI9 Escape & Evasion 1939-1945 by MRD Foot & JM Langley 👉MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry | WWII Historian 👉Saturday at MI9 by Airey Neave Tiny 🧙🧵👇 x.com/curatoremma/st…
#OnThisDay in 2023, the pioneering work of engineer Tommy Flowers was recognised with an @englishheritage blue plaque 🔵 Flowers and his team designed COLOSSUS at Dollis Hill, which was later used to break German cipher systems at Bletchley Park in #WWII.
The heroes who sabotaged the Nazi bomb. Opportunity of a lifetime to walk in their footsteps, with SOE_Expeditions Their full incredible story is told in my book, Hunting The Nazi Bomb: geni.us/DamienLewisBoo…
In his Bond novels, Ian Fleming included many subtle nods to his days in NID and his beloved 30 AU. In #Thunderball human torpedoes are released from the hull of a ship in the same way Italian troops had done during #WW2. 30 Commando hunted these torpedoes as a priority in
Helen Fry | WWII Historian I’m sure he would want to be called a ‘hero’ but my Gt Uncle Edward ‘Jack’ Woodhead was in our eyes. Awarded the DSM as Coxswain of HMS Gulzar he rescued under gunfire the last British troops from Calais in 1940. Days later rescuing 500 from Dunkirk.