Project Big Ben
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Project Big Ben
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"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. 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. In late July, 1944, Operation Most III the Polish resistance movement succeeded in capturing an intact V2 rocket near the Pustkow Testing Centre. It had been laun
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1944 British project to find and investigate a captured V2 rocket
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Big_Ben
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2023-12-29T07:10:06Z
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