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mercurygray · 2 years ago

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i absolutely love whatever you write for the ww2 top gun prompts, so i have gathered enough courage to come here and make a prompt of my own. i'd like to read about an aftermath of bob and phoenix being chosen for a covert operation to drop a female cichociemni agent into poland. they don't know what's it like to have one's home country razed to the ground and chopped up by both nazi germany and soviet russia. hopefully, they'll never know. thank you!

That's a pretty substantial idea, Kind Anonymous Friend, but I think I'm going to have to take a pass on this one - Operations like the one you're describing would have been handled by the Special Operations Executive, or SOE, a special branch of the British Armed forces, and the group responsible for delivering SOE agents to their assignments in occupied Europe was the Royal Air Force Special Duties Service. They were flying a lot of Lysanders, Hudsons, and Halifaxes, not the sporty little fighter planes the US Navy would have been using, or the big bombers of the the US Air Force.

BUT. I don't want to leave you out in the cold here. I'm not super-well versed in SOE work, but the most famous Polish SOE operative I can think of is Krystyna Skarbek, (also known as Christina Granville) who has been the subject of several books. The 2020 movie The Resistance Fighter talks about Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the Polish government in exile and the home army.

If SOE is something you're interested in, there's also a really fun mini-series called X Company that looks at SOE agents in France. Another one of my personal favorites is called The Heavy Water War (Kampen om tungtvannet) - it's about the sabotage of the Norsk Hydro plant in Ryuken, which is what I've based my fictional 1940 mission on. That show also does a great job of showing what the occupation of Norway looked and felt like for civilians. I also really like the 2019 book A Woman of No Importance, which is all about Virginia Hall, an American SOE agent.

This doesn't have anything to do with Top Gun: Maverick, but I *also* happen to know that @wexhappyxfew is working on a fanfic for Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries, that involves a member of the Cichociemni - It's called Landslide and it's on AO3!

#asked and answered #kind anonymous friend #special operations executive #the lovely land of might have written

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overlookedwwiimedia · 2 years ago

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The Resistance Fighter (2019)

Basic Story: Jan Nowak-Jezioranski is sent to Poland immediately before the uprising at the end of the war.

Fan Thoughts: If you search for this movie online most sites say that Jan Nowak-Jezioranski is smuggled from Poland to England to give them news on the Home Army, but he actually is flown from England to Poland while pursued by the Gestapo. He goes to Poland to communicate with the Resistance that Poland is to be given to the Russians at the end of the war, and to stop the uprising, putting them in an impossible position. When the film starts, Jan seems almost an unlikely hero, he breaks his arm training to jump into Poland and later in Poland they must ride bicycles to their destination, and it is revealed he can’t ride a bike. As things move along the focus shifts more to spy-craft rather than action and he proves he is actually quite good at his job. The acting across the board is well done, and while there aren't any standout pieces of cinematography or music, everything comes together to make a solid film. There are some twists and turns to keep things engaging and this focuses on a portion of the war that is actively avoided in the West, making it both an entertaining and informative film.

Warnings: multiple executions on-screen

Available On: Tubi, Vudu, Prime Video, Sling, YouTube, Google Play, Apple TV

#wwii movies #overlookedwwiimovies

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