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Operation Anthropoid: Killing Reinhard Heydrich
Czech and Slovak soldiers trained in Britain parachuted into Prague to assassinate one of the most powerful Nazis in occupied Europe.
Covert missions, espionage networks, and clandestine operations that shaped the war from the shadows.
7 factsCzech and Slovak soldiers trained in Britain parachuted into Prague to assassinate one of the most powerful Nazis in occupied Europe.
British intelligence planted fake invasion plans on a corpse and floated it to Spanish shores to deceive the Nazis about the Allied invasion of Sicily.
A top-secret U.S. Army unit used inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions to impersonate larger forces and deceive the enemy.
The Allies created an entire fictional army group under Patton to convince Hitler that the real D-Day invasion would target Pas-de-Calais, not Normandy.
Norwegian commandos skied across a frozen plateau and scaled an "unclimbable" gorge to destroy a Nazi heavy water plant critical to Germany's nuclear program.
British SOE agents essentially committed an act of piracy in neutral waters, stealing enemy ships from a Spanish colonial port to deny them to the Axis.
MI5 managed to identify, capture, and turn every single German agent sent to Britain, creating a legendary double-agent network.