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The raid on the secret rocket research establishment at Peenemünde
on the Baltic coast in August 1943 has gone down in history as one
of the most successful and remarkable of the war. The site was
virtually obliterated, and the Germans forced to move rocket
production and development elsewhere. But it came at a terrible
cost. More than 40 bombers and 215 RAF aircrew failed to return.
After the war, the bodies of many of those who were killed were
recovered by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service (MRES) and
buried in Commonwealth war graves. But not all. A series of mishaps
and miscommunication led the MRES to search in the wrong place.
Funds to continue the search dried up. And with the site falling
into Russian hands, and access to British and US search parties
severely restricted, the search ultimately had to be called off,
and the remaining men commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial as
having no known grave. But some of the missing men are still there,
waiting to be found. With a foreword from Peenemünde raid veteran
pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H, and illustrated with a wealth of
previously unpublished photographs, Sean Feast and Mike McLeod tell
the story of the forgotten graves of Peenemünde, the search to
discover the truth about their final resting place, and the chance
that their bodies may yet be discovered and returned.
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