The 'Useless' British Aircraft That Let SOE Agents Vanish Behind Enemy Lines
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The 'Useless' British Aircraft That Let SOE Agents Vanish Behind Enemy Lines
In May 1940, 118 Westland Lysanders were destroyed in just six weeks during the Fall of France. The RAF declared it "quite unsuited" to modern warfare. Bomber Command wanted nothing to do with it. Fighter Command dismissed it as obsolete. And yet this "useless" aircraft would become the most important plane in Britain's secret war ...
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