Churchill is known as the Iron-Blooded Prime Minister, a respected presence in the hearts of the British people, and the only people who can be equal to him are Stalin and Roosevelt. Churchill had a great talent for the command of war, because he had staged many wonderful battles in his history, and behind some of them there were many little-known interesting things.
In 1940, at Churchill's order, the British formed the SOE, which was dedicated to espionage and sabotage, and this organization also helped the European continent to launch a resistance movement. Since then, a steady stream of agents have been sent to Nazi-occupied Europe, and the real identity of these agents was basically unknown to the outside world during World War II.
Some people on the British side proposed to airdrop agents to France and other places, but they were opposed by the deputy marshal of the Air Force at the time, but this proposal was affirmed by Churchill, and the SOE and the Air Force began to cooperate closely, and in five years the Royal Air Force airdropped thousands of agents to the European continent, sending them back in batches.
At the outbreak of World War II, the United Kingdom established a secret spy network, ambushing a large number of British spies and spy equipment in the German occupation areas, on the one hand, to listen to the movements of the German army, to disintegrate the German military operations, and on the other hand to rescue those Allied flight personnel who parachuted in the German theater. The RAF formed a team dedicated to conducting special operations on aircraft, affectionately known as the "Moon Squadron", whose main task was to infiltrate the German-occupied areas at night to complete various covert operations.
Whenever the night of the full moon, without any lighting, the "Lesander" Mk III liaison plane would land on the temporary runway, there was a fixed ladder behind the cabin, and the agents would get on and off the plane, and in just a few minutes, the "Lesander" quietly completed the task of picking up the agents. The British also used an improved version of the Halifax bomber to deliver agents and spy equipment.
The whole process is intense and exciting, but also quite dangerous. Agent Philip Schneider was supposed to be brought back by a British aircraft after completing a given mission in France, but unfortunately the weather conditions were very bad at the time, the pilot Farley took off on time but the process was tortuous, the cockpit was opened early, the radio was flooded due to weather reasons, and then during the flight, the cockpit was hit by the bullets of the German air defense post so that the compass was damaged. The weather on the return trip had been bothering Farley, and it was difficult to find an emergency landing opportunity through the gap between the clouds, when the fuel was exhausted, Both Farley and Schneider were captured, but fortunately the superior commander came to bail.
The first flight did not go well, but under Churchill's leadership, the Lunar Squadron grew stronger, flying 2,500 sorties back and forth. It is worth mentioning that before landing troops, the Allied "Yedburg" special forces were also successfully sent to France because of the moon force, which shows how much Churchill made to the country as prime minister, no wonder there is a name of "iron blood".