Eric Welsh was a British chemist and naval intelligence officer during the Second World War. Between 1919 and 1940 he worked for the Bergen branch of the company International Paint Ltd. From 1941 he
Eric Welsh in a meeting with Samuel Goudsmit, Fred Wardenburg and Rupert Cecil
The German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch with Welsh in battledress at top centre, Rupert Cecil nearest camera
The Alsos Mission was an organized effort by a team of British and United States military, scientific, and intelligence personnel to discover enemy scientific developments during World War II. Its chi
British and American members of the Alsos Mission dismantle the experimental nuclear reactor that German scientists had built as part of the German nuclear program in Haigerloch.
Boris Pash (right) during Operation Harborage in April 1945 in Hechingen
Alsos Mission personnel returned from Stadtilm on an RAF Dakota, indicating the bipartisanship of its activity.