soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Apr 3, 11:26 pm, Rich Rostrom wrote:

> There were a few assassinations here and there.
>
> Off the top of my head, I know of
>
> French Admiral Francois Darlan, killed in December 1942
> by an agent of some rival French faction. (The assassin
> was executed almost at once, and there was no record of
> who he was acting for.)
>
> Heydrich, killed in May 1942, by agents of SOE.
>
> Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister of State for
> the Middle East, by the ultra-Zionist "Stern Gang"
> in November 1944.
>
> At least one senior Vichy police official by the
> Resistance, but I can't track down the ref.
>
> The Germans allegedly shot down a passenger seaplane
> from Gibraltar to Britain because of a report Churchill
> was on board. (They didn't bother otherwise.)

What about the death of general Sikorski, also on a plane leaving
Gibraltar?

RW