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Vol.2. no.1
The
Daily Telegraph, ‘Lidice and Lesaky’, 11th June 1942
The Daily
Telegraph, ‘Allied Planes Secret Landings in France’, 9th February 1944
The
Daily Telegraph’s Second Book of Obituaries, ‘Gp Captain Ron Hockey’, (1992), pp.
231-5
The
Daily Telegraph, Colonel Maurice Buckmaster’s obituary, 1992
The
Daily Telegraph, Squadron Leader ‘Bunny’ Rymills’ obituary, 1997
The
Daily Telegraph, Sdn Leader James Wagland’s’ obituary, 9th April 2005
The
Daily Telegraph, White Mouse, 5th June 2005.
The
Daily Telegraph, Pearl Cornioley, 12th April 2006.
The
Daily Telegraph, Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges’ obituary, January 5th 2007.
The
Daily Telegraph, Documents reveal role of ‘winged spies,’ 21st March 2007
The
Guardian, Oswin Craster, May 2nd 2006
The
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The
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The
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November 5th 1944
The
Sunday Express, WAAF girls parachuted into France, March 11th 1945
The Times, December 19th 1946
The Times, A.H.C Boxer’s obituary, Tuesday May 5th 1995
Trading
Post, Bill
Frost’s memoirs, January – March 1992, pp.64-66
Bunnage,
D. ‘The History of Tempsford Hall’, undated newspaper article
Documents
Bedfordshire
County Record Office. (BCRO.) PM 2935/4/23
BCRO. PM
2935/4/25
BCRO. PM
2936/1/40.9
BCRO. PM
2936/1/45.13
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Public Record Office, Kew, SOE Archives 1/40/18,
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Films and TV
Programmes
Carve
Her Name with Pride, (1958) Film directed by Lewis Gilbert
Churchill’s
Secret Army, Channel 4 Television, January 28th, February 4th, 11th 2000
Heroes
of Telemark, (1965) Film directed by Anthony Mann
Moonstrike, BBC TV series March 1963
Now the
Story can be Told, (1944) RAF Film at Hendon Air Museum
Odette, (1950) Wilcox-Neale film directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Target
for Tonight, (1941) Film directed by Harry Watt
The
Mapmakers, UK History Channel, 27th June 2004
They
Flew Alone, (1941) Film directed by Herbert Wilcox
The
Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Channel 5 documentary by Jan and Krystyna Kaplan, 29th May 2001
Secret
Agent – The True Story of Violette Szabó , BBC Midland documentary by Howard
Tuck 19th September 2002
Female
Agents, Revolver Films, 2008
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