What the records say
- When
- 14 Jan 1942
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 3.75° N, 8.77° E
- Description
- 1942 British SOE mission in West Africa
Operation Postmaster
Naval operation during the Second World War
Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission was carried out by the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942. Their objective was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour and sail them to Lagos.
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