How One British Officer Used a Decoy Crash to Lure a Nazi Rescue Boat Into an Enigma Trap

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​WW2 British Valor

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In September 1940, a young British intelligence officer named Ian Fleming devised one of the most audacious schemes of the Second World War — crash a captured German bomber into the Channel, lure a Nazi rescue boat close, and steal its Enigma machine. The plan was bold, brutal, and endorsed by the codebreakers of Bletchley Park itself. But it never flew. This is the true story of Operation Ruthless — the trap that was never sprung, and the man who turned its failure into fiction.

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