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Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. [1] [2] [3] It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by Dutton Books, then reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002. An audiobook narrated by Kate Reading was released in August 2002. [4] [5]
USS Jackdaw (AMS-21/YMS-373) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for the jackdaw .
Witherington mostly operated in Indre Department, 220 kilometres (140 miles) south of Paris.. Cecile Pearl Witherington Cornioley, CBE (24 June 1914 – 24 February 2008), code names Marie and Pauline, was an agent in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.
WWII production count: 14,483 Aircraft type: Fighter Country of origin: Great Britain From 1937 to 1944, nearly 14,500 Hawker Hurricane fighters were produced. The Royal Air Force deployed 32 ...
Royal Naval Air Station Crail (HMS Jackdaw) (8 December 1941 - 27 January 1942) Royal Naval Air Station Twatt (HMS Tern) (27 January - 22 February 1942) Royal Naval Air Station Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk) (22 February - 26 March 1942) Royal Naval Air Station Donibristle (HMS Merlin) (26 March - 16 April 1942)
Royal Naval Air Station Dunino or more simply RNAS Dunino (HMS Jackdaw II) is a former Fleet Air Arm base located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west of Kingsbarns, Fife, ...
Royal Naval Air Station Crail (RNAS Crail, also known as HMS Jackdaw) is a former Royal Naval Air Station of the Fleet Air Arm located 4.9 miles (7.9 km) east of Anstruther, Fife and 8.8 miles (14.2 km) from St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It was home to a site of the Joint Services School for Linguists from 1956 to 1960.
The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991) ISBN 0911333916; Chambers II, John Whiteclay. OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II (NPS, 2008) online; chapters 1-2 and 8-11 provide a useful summary history of OSS by a scholar.