Force 266

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 444 words | Copyright

Force 266, Allied organization formed out of Force 133 and staffed by SOE and the Office of Strategic Services, responsible for supplying Tito's partisans and Mihailović's cetniks. It controlled a number of Allied units on Vis, an island off the Yugoslavian coast, and also ran training camps for those entering Yugoslavia to help the partisans. It was absorbed into Force 399 of the Balkan Air Force HQ when it was created in June 1944.

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