Enemy searchlights had caught its outline
as the RAF Whitley reached Nieuport on the coast of Nazi-occupied
Belgium, and the German batteries opened up. But unscathed, the pilots
pressed on, heading inland as instructed.
Just
minutes later, passing above the darkened fields of Flanders, the
crucial moment had arrived. The flaps of the aircraft were lowered and,
from a height of between 600 and 1,000ft, a British ‘agent’ parachuted
gently to the ground.
This was July
1941, and an extraordinary new development in the intelligence war with
the Wehrmacht was in full swing. So important was the information
gleaned from this particular mission, it would end up on Churchill’s
desk.
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