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Рубрики WWII; Современность; Спецслужбы; Версия для печати

Военные некрологи в британских газетах

Group Captain Jim Mitchell
Canadian wartime bomber pilot who later led the longest mercy flight in the RCAF's history.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2657114/Group-Captain-Jim-Mitchell.html

Alex McKie
RAF navigator who hunted the Tirpitz while serving with the Dam Busters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2641055/Alex-McKie.html

Lord Elliott
Legal authority in Scottish land matters who as an officer during the war had escaped from his German captors in Italy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2627733/Lord-Elliott.html

Commander Douglas Hunt
Naval officer who landed agents in Holland from his MTB and engaged enemy forces in the English Channel.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2621121/Commander-Douglas-Hunt.html

Nicholas Wide
Officer who engaged the enemy with high-explosive shells while his driverless tank careered towards a railway cutting.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2614988/Nicholas-Wide.html

Carl Aschan
Wartime intelligence officer who served Britain in his native Sweden and helped to hunt down leading Nazis.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2604202/Carl-Aschan.html

Commodore Sam Dunlop
Commander of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary who played a vital role in supplying British troops during the Falklands campaign of 1982
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4621476.ece

Gino Birindelli
Italian naval officer who was a pioneer in the wartime use of ‘human torpedoes’ and later served with Nato in the Mediterranean
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4621500.ece

Ну и касательные к сабжу

Yuri Nosenko
KGB intelligence officer whose sudden defection to the West was initially viewed with suspicion
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2641052/Yuri-Nosenko.html

Iosif Dragan: Romanian oil mogul
Fascist sympathiser who in exile made a fortune from Romanian oil
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4613666.ece

Wolfgang Vogel
East German lawyer, and confidant of top politicians, who brokered prisoner exchange deals between East and West
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4613780.ece

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