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Churchill’s American arsenal: the special relationship that won World War II
In a new book, Larrie D Ferreiro explains how a special relationship between British and US combat scientists and engineers produced the innovations that won the Second World War.
Shortly after midnight on the morning of 28 February 1942, the men of 2nd Paratroop Battalion, C Company, dropped through a small opening in the floor of the fuselage of their modified bombers, floating down and landing in a foot of fresh snow on level ground, about 600 yards from their intended target near the town of Bruneval on the Normandy coast. A perfect drop, despite heavy anti-aircraft fire. Led by Major John Frost, who would later distinguish himself at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (and who would eventually be portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the movie A Bridge Too Far), the paratroopers fought off German troops while they captured and dismantled a German Würzburg air-inter
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