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title: "Project Big Ben"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Big_Ben"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T13:26:02.789272+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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"Big Ben" was the World War II code name for the British project to reconstruct and evaluate captured German missiles such as the V-2 rocket. On 31 July 1944, after the UK agreed to exchange Supermarine Spitfires for the wreckage of a V-2 in Sweden during World War II, experts at Farnborough began an attempt to reconstruct the missile.
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In late July 1944, Operation Most III the Polish resistance movement (Armia Krajowa) succeeded in capturing an intact V2 rocket near the Pustkow Testing Centre. It had been launched for a test flight, failed but did not explode and then retrieved still intact from the Bug River, and transferred secretly to London.
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== See also ==
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V-1 and V-2 Intelligence
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Home Army and V1 and V2 — Polish resistance efforts.
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Operation Crossbow
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Operation Hydra (1943)
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== References == |