Human civilization has never been freed from war. But there was no war as horrific as World War II. Most of the world's superpowers have fought that war. Every warring country has devised new war strategies for its own benefit.
But the war is not always on the front lines. Some battles have been fought invisibly by the enemy. Which can also be termed as espionage or covert operation. In World War II, both the Allies and the Axis Powers were active intelligence agencies.But in the end the Allies won the war.
One of the most important members of the Allies was Britain, which had to fight the most with Germany. And in need of this fight they conducted some secret operations, which is still admirable today. Today's article will highlight the three best campaigns of Britain's secret agents in the Second World War.
*Expedition of St. Naz
In 1942, World War II was in full swing. At that time, the world's most powerful warship, the Tarpis, made its debut. But that was bad news for the British. Because this warship was the latest version of Hitler's navy.
The then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew very well how terrible this ship could become for them. If the torpedoes could once float across the Atlantic, it would be an unimaginable loss to the British. That's why all of Churchill's war ideas were around Tarpis.
Just as the turpentine was a monster on the one hand, its defenses were very strong.The warship had the ability to withstand any attack from outside. As a result, it was almost impossible to attack this ship directly.
That's why British special operations executives think of attacking in a different way. They then decided that if it was not possible to attack Tarpis, the dock on which they depended would be destroyed.
Later members of the British Special Operations Executive team learned that giant ships like the Tarpis could be repaired by anchoring in a single dockyard. And that was the Normandy Dock in St. Nazareth, controlled by Hitler's Nazi forces. If British troops could somehow destroy this dockyard, Tarpis would be forced to return to Germany via the English Channel.
But this task was not very easy. St. Nazareth was strategically very important. Its defenses were also quite strong. There was a possibility of large quantities of explosives near this large dock. As a result the plan to attack this dock was quite frightening. But there was no other way in front of the British.
British troops filled HMS Campbelltown with an old destroyer of explosives. The explosives that were used were slow; That means it will take a long time to explode. A group of commandos will set off the explosives before entering the main entrance to the dock.
Most of those selected for the expedition were explosives experts. The chances of them surviving the expedition were slim. And the key to the success of this operation was the timing of the explosion. If the explosives had already exploded, Campbelltown would have been torn to pieces and every soldier would have died.