Mission Dafoe

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".^[1] 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.^[2][3]