Glossary D-G, continued. From Binney's book...
D/F- Direction finding, a technique used by the Germans for tracking radios when messages are being broadcast.
D/F Section- A unit in SOE operating escape lines.
Deuxie`me Bureau- he Polish government-in-exile had an espionage and counter-intelligence service named after it's French equivalent.
Englandspiel- "The English Game"- playing back by the Germans of captured SOE radios, using an agents codes, to deceive SOE that the agent was sending them and not the enemy.
Eureka- A transponder on the ground, used by the Resistance, sending out a beam guiding a plane to the dropping ground agents or material.
FANY- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Feldengendarmerie- the German Military Police
Felucca- Small sailing ships, merchant vessels, used in the Mediterranean.
"the firm"- Colloquial term for SOE
FFI- French Forces of the Interior
Francs-Tireurs (FTP)- In full, Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Francais: the military wing of the communist National Libration Front.
Free French- Those working for the movement, Free France, founded in London by DeGaulle, and fighting against the AXIS in defiance of the armistice signed by the French government on June 22, 1940, after the fall of France.
F Section- The French Section of the SOE
Gehieime Feldpolizei- The German army's own secret police.
George- Initially all SOE radio operators were referred to as "George" and given numbers to distinguish them.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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