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World War II in Albania; Part of the European theatre and Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Albanian refugees crossing the border to Yugoslavia in April 12, 1939, Ballists and Communists converse during Mukje Agreement 1943, Italian troops in Durrës, Communist Partisans fighting in Tirana 1944, Partisans march through Tirana after occupying it 28 ...
Foxley (1944–45) – Germany, plan to assassinate Hitler pressed by SOE and supported by Duff Cooper. A full implementation and intelligence report was drawn up but was not taken forward; internal arguments against the assassination included the possibility of a resulting Hitler martyr cult; and, when the war would eventually be won, a ...
French military decoration created on September 26, 1939, to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis force at any time during World War II DM: Defence Medal: Instituted in May 1945. Awarded to British Commonwealth subjects for non-operational military and civilian war service during WWII. DSC: Distinguished Service Cross
Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II. SOE personnel operated in all territories occupied or attacked by the Axis powers, except where demarcation lines were agreed upon ...
In mid-1943 the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British clandestine organisation, sent several agents to Albania to cooperate with Balli Kombëtar and the Albanian National Liberation Front. David Smiley, one of the SOE agents, contacted a unit of two hundred Balli Kombëtar soldiers under the command of Qemal Burimi.
During World War II, he worked for Special Operations Executive and was involved in clandestine missions in Ethiopia, China, and particularly Albania. In 1954 he served as a Unionist Member of Parliament for Inverness .
The German Winter Offensive in Albania (1943–1944) (Albanian: Ofensiva Gjermane e Dimrit në Shqipëri; German: Deutsche Winteroffensive in Albanien), also known as the Winter Offensive (Albanian: Ofensiva e Dimrit; German: Winteroffensive) or the Winter campaign (Albanian: Fushata e Dimrit; German: Winterfeldzug), was a military campaign carried out by German forces during their occupation ...
Operation Noah's Ark was a World War II plan instigated by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to harass German troops as they withdrew from Greece. It was to encompass a series of operations, including Operation Underdone in Albania, to be executed by local partisan groups. In practice, it was not executed, due to lack of effective ...