A blue plaque fixed to a wall at the main entrance to the site of houses that played an important part during the second world war, in Hurley village
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4024 x 6048 px | 34.1 x 51.2 cm | 13.4 x 20.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
10 September 2020Location:
Hurley, Berkshire, BritainMore information:
A blue plaque fixed to a wall at the main entrance to the site of houses that played an important part during the second world war, in Hurley village in Berkshire, Britain. These properties were requisitioned by the US Navy in 1943, and was transformed into a very secretive station known as ‘OSS Station Victor.’ It employed 150 personnel. Even the local villagers were unaware of its real purpose, believing it just a radar station. Its main function was controlling its secret agents in the field on clandestine operations such as obtaining updated intelligence on Hitler’s Panzer divisions, secret weapons and industrial war machine in Nazi-occupied Europe.