Plaque recognition for SOE HQ in Baker Street - tribute to WWII secret base
Published: 21 May 2010
by HANNAH PARRY
THE top secret base of a legendary Second World War spy team has been revealed as a Baker Street house.
Special Operations Executive, or SOE, at 64 Baker Street played such a vital role in uniting the foreign resistance movement against Nazism that Dwight Eisenhower credited it with shortening the war by six months.
The SOE, also known as “Baker Street”, was said to have helped thwart Hitler's plan to obtain nuclear weapons and foil the Nazi bombardment of Antwerp. The base and its team were honoured with a green plaque this week.
By 1946, when the SOE ended, it had records of some 40,000 people, including seconded service personnel and agents of many nationalities who had worked with it during the course of war.