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| Crete |












![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68524) Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047697](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-15.jpg)

![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68511) Unidentified. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047684](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-14.jpg)
![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68515) Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047688](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-13.jpg)
![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68507) Toni Simcox (with gun). Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047680](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-12.jpg)
| France |








Left to right: Gilbert Galletti, Captain Patrick O’Regan, Captain John Roper, Christine Granville (Countess Krystyna Skarbek) and Captain Leonard Hamilton (Blanchaert). Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205181065

| Albania |




![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68524) Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047697](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-15-1.jpg)
![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68507) Toni Simcox (with gun). Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047680](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-12-1.jpg)



![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68522) Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047695](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-4.jpg)
![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68515) Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047688](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-13-1.jpg)



![SERVICE OF MICHAEL LIS WITH THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE] MISSION TO ALBANIA, 1943 (HU 68511) Unidentified. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205047684](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/albania-14-1.jpg)
| Siam, Force 136 |
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65829) Group photograph: (back row) Sgt W Collins ('Gunner'), Kris Tosayananda ('Kong'), Peter Kemp and Sgt Rowley ('Spider'). Front row: David Smiley ('Grin') and Nai Tieng Sirikhanda ('Pluto'). Ubon, September 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061667](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-9.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65705) Widow of a Indian VC winner being presented to Lord Wavell at the VC and GC Parade, Delhi, 19 December 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061544](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-6.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65817) Head and shoulders portrait of David Smiley at the VC and GC Parade, Delhi, 19 December 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061655](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-3.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65819) David Smiley with Sudhi Sudisakdi ('Chat') and his family in Bangkok, December 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061657](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-4.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65734) RAF Dakota at Naarn airstrip, Thailand, June 1945. David Smiley is assisted into the aircraft for his medical evacuation to India following his burns accident. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061573](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-10.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65764) David Smiley standing outside the officer's mess at the camp near Naarn clandestine airstrip, June 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061602](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-2.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65774) Close-up of David Smiley's burnt arms and hands, the consequence of his accident with the thermite booby-trapped case. Photographed at Naarn (?), June 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061612](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-8.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-5.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65595) David Smiley and Force 136 personnel crossing the Mekong River to French Indo-China, November 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061435](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-1.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65731) Japanese troops parade after being formally disarmed, Ubon, October 1945. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061570](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-7.jpg)
![SERVICE OF COLONEL DAVID SMILEY WITH FORCE 136 (SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [SOE]) IN THAILAND (SIAM), MARCH - DECEMBER 1945. (HU 65664) Aerial oblique of the drop zone (DZ) at Ban Non Han, 29 May 1945: two open parachutes and the 'reception committee' are visible. Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205061503](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/siam-11.jpg)
| Middle East |


| Yugoslavia |


![MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND SPECIAL FORCES PERSONALITIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (HU 68050) Colonel D T (Bill) Hudson, leading Special Operations Executive [SOE] officer in Yugoslavia and Poland. Hudson was sent to assess the state of Yugoslavian resistance in 1941. After being abandoned by Mihailovic and the Cetnik forces, he endorsed Churchill's decision to maintain support for Tito in 1944. On 26 December 1944, he led the FRESTON Mission to assess the state of resistance in occupie... Copyright: ý IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205060963](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/yugoslavia-3.jpg)
| Macedonia |

| Greece |






