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Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records

1940Date range

2Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill16 July 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to establish the Special Operations Executive

Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton16 July 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to establish the Special Operations Executive

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill22 July 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Forms the Special Operations Executive, supports resistance in German occupied Europe

Names involved

Edward Hugh John Neale DaltonWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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