SOE Drop by Ivan Berryman. (APB) BAT67 In the evening of 18th

In the evening of 18th of July 1941

rather than the more usual practice of patrolling in search of enemy activity

and the air supremacy achieved by the escort fighters

Nelsons revolutionary battle plan was to cut apart the larger Franco-Spanish fleet of Vice-Admiral Villeneuve by sailing in two single column divisions directly at right angles into the combined fleet and thus rendering almost half of the leading ships useless until the could turn and join the fight

fuelled by the melting snow of the Alps

SOE Drop by Ivan Berryman. (APB) BAT67 In the evening of 18thB0504APB. SOE Drop by Ivan Berryman. Halifax B. II Series 1 (Special) JP254 of 148 Special Duties Squadron, RAF is depicted over the drop zone near to the Alt Aussee salt mine in the Austrian Alps as two of the four SOE agents exit the bomber via the crew access door. Their mission was to secure and protect 6,755 items of the world's greatest works of art that had been looted and stored by the Germans as they swept across Europe. With the allied