The V2 Heist: How Allies Extracted Hitler's Rocket from Nazi-Occupied Poland
In 1944 Allied agents covertly evacuated key V-2 rocket components from the Nazi test site at Blizna in Poland, smuggling them through Warsaw in sacks hidden under vegetables and loading them onto a Dakota aircraft after a mud-bound effort to take off. The mission, codenamed Most III, delivered 19 suitcases of fragments and documents to Britain, enabling scientists to study the weapon and confirming it had no guidance system, a discovery that helped shape early countermeasures before the V-2 could strike London.