Operation Jupiter (Norway)
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Operation Jupiter was a plan originating in 1941 for an invasion of northern Norway and Finland by Allied forces during the Second World War. The first versions of the plan were code named Operation D
Churchill with the Chiefs of Staff, who had strongly resisted the Norwegian invasion plans from the outset.
Project Habakkuk
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Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in th
Operation Jupiter (Norway)
…Franklin D Roosevelt on several occasions, and did so again on 27 July 1943. Churchill managed to keep the Jupiter idea alive, even suggesting that Project Habakkuk, a plan for a giant aircraft carrier made from a mixture of ice and sawdust, might solve the air cover issue. He managed to get Jupiter inserted into…
Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway
A block of pykrete
Aircraft carrier drawings.
Cross section, showing 40 ft (12 m) thick walls made of pykrete