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Sir William Samuel Stephenson CC MC DFC (born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, 23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the Western Allies during World War II.
A view of part of the site of Camp X looking toward Lake Ontario. Camp X was established December 6, 1941, by the chief of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a close confidant of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [7]
The Veterans of the OSS was founded in 1947 by General William Donovan. [1] In 1997, ... 1983 Sir William Stephenson; 1986 Ronald W. Reagan; 1991 George H.W. Bush;
According to William Stevenson's The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II (Arcade Publishing, 2006), Atkins' first mission was to get Poland's cryptologists Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski out of the country, and she was a member of the British military mission (MM-4), alongside Colin ...
A tree protected the remains of a World War II fighter pilot, whose plane crashed in Germany in 1945, for more than 70 years.
Macdonald, Bill, The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, (Raincoast, 2001) – ISBN 1-55192-418-8 This book contains interviews with several Canadian employees of BSC in New York. Mahl, Thomas E., Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–44, (Brassey's Inc., 1999) ISBN 1-57488-223-6
Mackenzie, William (2000). The Secret History of SOE: Special Operations Executive 1940–1945. BPR Publications. ISBN 0-9536151-8-9. Orpen, Neil D. (1984). Airlift to Warsaw: The Rising of 1944. Norman, OK (US): University of Oklahoma. ISBN 978-0806119137. Rigden, Denis (2001). SOE Syllabus: Lessons in Ungentlemanly Warfare World War II ...
A Milwaukee native, Pekrul signed up for the U.S. Army at Boys Tech High School (now Bradley Tech), according to an interview with the War Memorial Center that he gave as part of the Wisconsin ...