Word: steenwijk
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...question remained: Who was fooling whom? Three days later, London ordered that a zone be prepared for an "important drop." In the early hours of March 28, at an isolated spot near Steenwijk, the Germans signaled in a twin-engine bomber on a triangle of lights. Silhouetted against the moonlight, the bomber swept down to 600 feet, as the Germans wondered if the important drop would turn out to be bombs. An instant later, five "gigantic black shadows" parachuted down-four containers of material, and an agent. The British had seemingly forgotten their own verification checks, and handed over...
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