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Orchard Court

Coordinates: 51°30′58″N 0°09′17″W / 51.5160°N 0.1546°W / 51.5160; -0.1546
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Orchard Court is an apartment block situated on the eastern side of Portman Square in London. Apartment number six was used by F section of the Special Operations Executive as an office for briefing agents during the Second World War.

Sources

  • Michael Richard Daniell Foot, SOE in France. An account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940-1944, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966, 1968 ; Whitehall History Publishing, in association with Frank Cass, 2004. Ce livre présente la version officielle britannique de l’histoire du SOE en France. Une référence essentielle sur le SOE.
  • Peter Churchill, Missions secrètes en France, 1941-1943, Presses de la Cité, 1967.
  • Marcel Ruby, La Guerre secrète. Les réseaux Buckmaster, Éditions France-Empire, 1985.

51°30′58″N 0°09′17″W / 51.5160°N 0.1546°W / 51.5160; -0.1546