This may be interested in watching a (free) 1943 docudrama called “School for Danger.” It is a rather accurate recreation of SOE training and activities, acting out, among others, by two of the actual SOE agents who served in France. The aircraft, buildings, weapons etc used in the film were real ones.
An interesting thing is that the name SOE was never mentioned, true to the secret nature of the SOE organization.
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'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
Good...other than everyone carrying Sten guns. I'll bet your knees were singin' when you saw the landing swings and slides in the jump school. Balloon jumps, what fun. Straight down forever and then at the last minute opening shock.
A good film released in 1947. What we don't know is how much or how little SOE was infiltrated by the Germans, probably because information is still secret. Things did not go well for SOE in Holland because many agents were captured on or soon after arrival.
. The aircraft, buildings, weapons etc used in the film were real ones.
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