Operation Salaam
Operation Salaam was a 1942 World War II military operation under the command of the Hungarian aristocrat and desert explorer László Almásy. The mission was conceived in order to assist Panzer Army Africa (to which Almásy was attached) by transferring two Abwehr agents deep into British-held Egypt.
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