BRITAIN’S SPECIAL AIR SERVICE (SAS) TO BEDEVIL AXIS ENEMY
Cairo, Egypt • July 1, 1941 During World War II Great Britain excelled in creating multiple networks of secret operatives. Perhaps the most famous set of secret agents worked for the Special Operations Executive. Officially formed on July 22, 1940, to “set Europe ablaze,” as Prime Minister Winston Churchill expressed it, the SOE was specifically tasked…