STS 17 Brickendonbury Manor, Brickendon, Hertford, Hertfordshire (originally XVII)

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STS 17 Brickendonbury Manor

Station 17, specializing in training agents and resistance workers in industrial sabotage. Vital operations such as the daring raid to destroy the Norwegian heavy water plant (part of Germany's nuclear bomb programme) and the bombing of the Renault engineering plant in France were launched from the estate.

More info in Traces of War under.

Høsten 1943 kom det et direktiv fra Supreme Headquarter Allied Expenditionary Force (SHAEF) om å forberede jernbanesabotasje i Norge. Men at den ikke skulle settes i verk før på nærmere ordre. Etter dette ble det lagt stor vekt på utdannelse i jernbanesabotasje.

Vinteren 1943—44 ble derfor flere grupper sendt eller forberedt sendt hjem med forberedelse av jernbanesabotasje som oppdrag.

I mai ble en del av oss sendt til S.T.S. nr. 17 for et spesialkurs i jernbane- og transformatorsabotasje. S.T.S. 17 lå nær Hertford nord for London og drev ellers med utdannelse i industrisabotasje. Kurset varte 8 dager og var hardt og konsentrert. Etter kurset følte vi oss virkelig som eksperter på jernbanesabotasie.

Se mere i: "Tortur, flukt og gisler til tross : hemmelige operasjoner på Møre, i Trøndelag og Telemark under krigen 1940-45" Herluf Nygård under.

"Section D established a school at Brickendonbury known as Station XVII. This school became SOE’s first STS and was renamed STS17. This facility was under the command of Commander Peters, RN. ‘The object of this school was to train men of different nationalities as instructors and recruiters who would be equipped and returned to their own countries in order to raise organisations to counter enemy interests and commit specific acts of sabotage. In addition, the establishment acted as a general purpose school and undertook the special operational training of raiding parties’. This school covered techniques for ‘attacking common machinery, that of putting out of action railways, dock installations, shipping, telecommunications, and also more specifically military targets such as aircraft, submarines, radiolocation installations, and in general of anything which could be described as a mechanical target’. The school could accommodate 35 students."

Les mere om STS'ene i "Built to Resist An Assessment of the Special Operations Executive’s Infrastructure in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, 1940-1946" se under.

Bruk Ctrl/F og søk i filen på "STS 31" - det er store filer. Det er garantert mye annet spennende stoff der også, verdt en hel studie for de ivrigste.

Disse to PDF filer er en Doktorgradsoppgave i 2 deler av Derwin Gregory, University of East Anglia. om SOE infrastructure i UK 1940 til 1946.

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