Post by Soutpeel on Nov 21, 2017 18:42:55 GMT 7
Secret commando suicide mission to destroy Hitler's nuclear programme revealed after 75 years
Seventy-five years ago today a team of 36 hand-picked commandos boarded a flight of Horsa gliders, to assault a mystery target deep in enemy held territory.
So secretive was their mission they didn’t even know what country they were flying into.
All they had been told was that their actions might change the course of the war.
Their mission – codenamed FRESHMAN – was launched on the orders of Winston Churchill who, together with US president Roosevelt, feared that Nazi Germany was two years ahead in the race to build the atom bomb.
In June 1942 Churchill had risked flying across the Atlantic in a giant Boeing flying-boat, to meet with Roosevelt. The Allies’ fortunes in the war were at their very nadir, but it wasn’t that which most worried the two world leaders.
Foremost on their minds was the terrifying prospect that Nazi Germany might win the race to build the bomb.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/secret-sas-suicide-mission-destroy-11552880
Seventy-five years ago today a team of 36 hand-picked commandos boarded a flight of Horsa gliders, to assault a mystery target deep in enemy held territory.
So secretive was their mission they didn’t even know what country they were flying into.
All they had been told was that their actions might change the course of the war.
Their mission – codenamed FRESHMAN – was launched on the orders of Winston Churchill who, together with US president Roosevelt, feared that Nazi Germany was two years ahead in the race to build the atom bomb.
In June 1942 Churchill had risked flying across the Atlantic in a giant Boeing flying-boat, to meet with Roosevelt. The Allies’ fortunes in the war were at their very nadir, but it wasn’t that which most worried the two world leaders.
Foremost on their minds was the terrifying prospect that Nazi Germany might win the race to build the bomb.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/secret-sas-suicide-mission-destroy-11552880
