Pictures from behind enemy lines - Cherokee

Alastair MacDonald, chief of the Cherokee mission, on the right, with Patrick 'Pat' Amoore. The two of them are waiting for a massive drop of supplies on 26 December 1944, near Biella.

Photo Credits: David Stafford, Mission accomplished SOE and Italy 1943-1945 (London: Vintage Books, 2012), p. 371.

In this photo, from left to right, sergeant major Gurin, captain Jim Bell posing with his pistol, and captain Burns (the pseudonym used by a Polish officer), somewhere on the Piedmontese Alps. The picture is autographed by Bell himself.

Photo Credits: Archivio Istoreto, fondo Poma Anello [IT-C00-FD8801]