"A trunk full of Britain’s WWII secrets saved the world" Topic
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| Tango01 | 24 Mar 2018 10:57 a.m. PST |
"On June 4, 1940, a defiant Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Dunkirk" speech to Parliament. The British had just rescued 338,000 retreating Allied soldiers, cornered by German forces. France was days away from formal surrender. It was spectacular humiliation spun as victory. "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be," he said. "We shall never surrender." Yet in the shadows, Churchill was preparing for Britain to fall. In three months, he would authorize an unprecedented, top-secret operation that signaled his desperation: the handover of all of Britain's scientific and technological innovations to the United States…" Main page
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| zoneofcontrol | 24 Mar 2018 2:19 p.m. PST |
With the pillaging and plundering by the Hitler govt. and its minions, much would have been stolen or destroyed. Both public and private holdings were decimated. This is nothing new. It has happened thru time and continues with the radicals in the middle east and SE Asia to this day. |
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makes corrections when some models don't turn out the way he expected!
