Mission Dafoe was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia. The group was led by Major Colin Scott Dafoe, a Canadian-born surgeon, and included two young British Sergeants; Frank, a trained operating-room orderly and Chris, an anaesthetist "with limited experience". Code named "Toffee" the mission left Bari airfield on 12 May 1944. and the trio was parachuted to their destination, the village of Čanići, where the Partisans, joined by Captain Wilson the local commander of the British Mission and the British Liaison Officer (BLO), were eagerly waiting.
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| - Mission Dafoe was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia. The group was led by Major Colin Scott Dafoe, a Canadian-born surgeon, and included two young British Sergeants; Frank, a trained operating-room orderly and Chris, an anaesthetist "with limited experience". Code named "Toffee" the mission left Bari airfield on 12 May 1944. and the trio was parachuted to their destination, the village of Čanići, where the Partisans, joined by Captain Wilson the local commander of the British Mission and the British Liaison Officer (BLO), were eagerly waiting. (en)
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| - Deakin, p. 43 (en)
- MacLaren, pp. 152-153 (en)
- Rogers, p. 135 (en)
- Street, p. 73 (en)
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| - "The morale of the army was shown to be dependent, in an intimate and mutual bond between the fighting Partisan and his wounded or sick comrade, on its ability to protect the defenceless and to preserve the unity and order of the whole main body under operational conditions." (en)
- "Here we saw the results of total war in gruesome detail - a sight which I still find hard to believe. In about twenty, one-room peasant houses were crowded together 350 seriously wounded Partisans. They lay on bare wooden floors, with closed windows. They were crowded together for warmth with but only one blanket for every two patients... Most pitiful of all was the fact that about one-third of the patients were women and young boys; for by the beginning of 1944 nearly 25% of the Partisan army consisted of women... The death rate at the hospital was about six per day." (en)
- "Every day Dafoe and I were down to the store gathering up sufficient instruments and drugs to set up a reasonable well-equipped hospital over there. With my previous experience I as able to cut out a lot of unnecessary stuff and concentrated, after the bare surgical essentials, on clothes, soap, candles, lamps, and things which make a wounded man comfortable. As the years crept on, it became more and more apparent how little equipment one really needed in war surgery." (en)
- "The filth and uncleanliness of the patients, the rooms and even the surrounding grounds. Pigs seemed to be everywhere, wallowing in the mud. The smell of the latrines - or lack of them. The untidiness of the nurses. Admittedly they had suffered and nothing was stable. But that didn't explain everything. Why couldn't they even wash the patients?" (en)
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| - Mission Dafoe was a World War II Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia. The group was led by Major Colin Scott Dafoe, a Canadian-born surgeon, and included two young British Sergeants; Frank, a trained operating-room orderly and Chris, an anaesthetist "with limited experience". Code named "Toffee" the mission left Bari airfield on 12 May 1944. and the trio was parachuted to their destination, the village of Čanići, where the Partisans, joined by Captain Wilson the local commander of the British Mission and the British Liaison Officer (BLO), were eagerly waiting. (en)
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