Project Big Ben
"Big Ben" was the World War II code name for the British project to reconstruct and evaluate captured German missiles such as the V-2 rocket.[1] On 31 July 1944, after the UK agreed to exchange Supermarine Spitfires for the wreckage of a V-2 in Sweden during World War II, experts at Farnborough began an attempt to reconstruct the missile.[2]
In late July 1944, Operation Most III the Polish resistance movement (Armia Krajowa) succeeded in capturing an intact V2 rocket near the Pustkow Testing Centre. It had been launched for a test flight, failed but did not explode and then retrieved still intact from the Bug River, and transferred secretly to London.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]- V-1 and V-2 Intelligence
- Home Army and V1 and V2 — Polish resistance efforts.
- Operation Crossbow
- Operation Hydra (1943)
References
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- ^ Jewishgen.org: Pustkow Concentration Camp (Poland) . retrieve 5.15.2013
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