Special operations executive

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Suitcase radios were used extensively by Special Operations Executive (SOE) to arrange supply drops and the movement of personnel. Messages were normally transmitted in Morse code having first been enciphered. Early models were heavy and bulky but this example, designed in 1943 by Major John Brown, was smaller and lighter than any previous models. COM 229.

The Special Operations Executive was ordered by Winston Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”. The Special Operations Executive’s (SOE) main task w

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