Operation Pluto
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Operation Pluto was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of
The pumping station at Sandown, originally disguised as Brown's Ice Cream
A Conundrum is towed across the English Channel laying out pipe to Cherbourg
Captain J. F. Hutchings, commander of Operation Pluto
A section of Hais pipe with the layers successively stripped away
Lord Mountbatten
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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the British royal family. A m
Operation Pluto
…million imperial gallons (820 million litres) of petrol. In early April 1942, the Chief of Combined Operations, (then Vice-Admiral, later First Sea Lord) Lord Louis Mountbatten, approached the Secretary for Petroleum, Geoffrey Lloyd, and asked if an oil pipeline could be laid across the English Channel. Mountbatten was tasked…
Mountbatten in 1973
Portrait by Philip de László, 1925
Prince Edward with his staff all wearing kimono during the Pacific visit to Japan in 1922. (Mountbatten standing, first from left). The Rising Sun Flag in the background.
Mountbatten inspecting sailors before the Bruneval Raid, February 1942