British Special Operations (SOE)

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Across
  1. 1. was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers
  2. 5. was a secret Second World War Royal Navy military operation in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory and military base.
  3. 7. envisaged sending superannuated R-class battle ships fortified with extra armour into the Baltic
  4. 9. was an Allied stay-behind plan during the Second World War to monitor Spain after a possible alliance between Francisco Franco and the Axis powers, and to undertake sabotage operations.
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  1. 2. 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.
  2. 3. was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
  3. 4. Allied code name for the raid at Dieppe on the French coast on August 19, 1942. The following order of battle lists the significant military units that participated in the battle, or were available as reserve.
  4. 5. (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
  5. 6. was the name of a deception operation devised by Ian Fleming in the British Admiralty during World War II, in an attempt to gain access to German Naval Enigma codebooks.
  6. 8. was an unsuccessful attempt in September 1940 by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa (modern-day Senegal).