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STS 5 - Wanborough Manor, Puttenham, Guildford, Surrey - initially the Preliminary School for F (French) Section, later (from June 1943) holding depot for Dutch agents and training of German Army PoWs as BONZOs.
SOE Section Nationality Born-Died Awards Notes Alf Espedal: Norwegian Independent Company 1: Norwegian: 1914–1969: Trained in STS 26 at Glen More and other Special Training Schools. In charge of "Operation Osprey" that parachuted in Rogaland county on Dec. 10 1943. Reginald Harold Everson: 1923–1990: Francois Michelle William Reeve ...
M STS-5, STS-51-B [158] Allen Paulson: M CEO of Gulfstream Aerospace [159] [28] Doug Pearson: F First pilot to shoot down a satellite from an aircraft [160] [32]
Lieutenant-Colonel Russell Frank Maynard, M.B.E. (465801), Royal Corps of Signals. 24400559 Corporal Paul McCarthy, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. 24199091 Warrant Officer Class 2 Herbert McConville, Ulster Defence Regiment
STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" Space Shuttle mission.
SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Southgate was the organiser (leader) of the SOE's STATIONER network (or circuit) operating in a large area centered on Châteauroux in central France and Tarbes in southern France from 1942 to 1944.
Her SOE file revealed that from 1923 to 1924 she had lived with her family in Wiesbaden, Germany. The family must have moved to France in 1926 as she went to school at the Lycee de Jeunes Filles, St Germain , France, before moving to England in 1930 as Byck attended the Lycee Francais in Kensington , London, SW7, where she took the ...
[5] By the autumn of 1940 more than 2,000 men had volunteered for commando training and what became known as the Special Service Brigade was formed into 12 units called commandos. [5] Each commando numbered about 450 men and was commanded by a lieutenant colonel. Each was divided into troops of 75 men and further divided into sections of 15 men ...