Operation Biting Archives - Remnant Earth

The Barbados HARP Gun

The Barbados HARP Gun: The Giant Cannon Built to Fire Into Space Places

RT-64-Radio Telescope

RT-64: The Soviet 64-Metre Radio Telescopes at Bear Lakes and Kalyazin Places

Mittelbau-Dora Tunnels

Mittelbau-Dora Tunnels: The Underground V-2 Factory Built by Prisoners Places

Operation Cue

Operation Cue: The Atomic Test That Bombed a Whole Town Events

Yucca Mountain Repository

Yucca Mountain: The Nuclear Tomb America Dug and Never Used Places

Zofiówka Sanatorium

Zofiówka Sanatorium: The Jewish Psychiatric Hospital Beneath the Otwock Pines Places

Bombay Beach

Bombay Beach: The Salton Sea Resort Town That Never Quite Disappeared Places

The Kola Superdeep Borehole

The Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Hole Ever Drilled Places

Events

Operation Biting: The Paratroop Raid That Stole a German Radar

On the night of 27 to 28 February 1942, 120 British paratroopers dropped into occupied Normandy, took apart a German Würzburg radar and carried the pieces to the beach. The raid cost a handful of men and handed British scientists the key to jamming it.

Places

Bruneval: The Clifftop Where a German Radar Stood Until 1942

On a farm clifftop above a Normandy beach, a lone villa, a pillbox and a bunker mark the site of the German radar stolen in 1942. The land is private, but a free memorial a short walk away tells the story, and the beach below is where the raiders left.