Operation Pluto 1944

[Willy]

How to get fuel across the English Channel to liberated Europe

[video]http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Nv9lBqPVuoE&feature[/video]

 

[huub vink]

Thanks for posting Willy. Not very well known is the fact that most of these pipelines were recovered after the war. The value of the scrap metal exceeded the costs to recover it by far!

PLUTO had a successor during the cold war. It has been one of NATO's secrets for many years, but now NATO tries to find commercial users......

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49151.htm?selectedLocale=en

Cheers,
huub

 

[Crusader]

How to get fuel across the English Channel to liberated Europe

[video]http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Nv9lBqPVuoE&feature[/video]

Thanks for posting Willy , As many war documentaries and movies I've seen over the years I've never seen this one . Very interesting in deed . If I got the part right when they were explaining the manufacturing process (probably got the sequence wrong) , steel , tar , wire , tar then rubber . Sure would take care of the durability and possible leakage I would think .

 

[brad kaste]

....Most impressive to me were the giant drums unreeling the 70 miles of pipe line while rotating/spinning in the water. The engineering principles behind this fuel pipeline construction, execution and installation is mind boggling.

 

[beana51]

Great Thanx...Now compare that to the KEYSTONE PIPE LINE?...Makes one wonder Do One??

 

[Motormouse]

My old folks live nearby the first PLUTO terminal,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto

keeping up the theme, some individual pipes were known as 'Bambi', 'Dumbo Near' & 'Dumbo Far'

ttfn

Pete

 

[Jagdflieger]

During the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact had the ability to lay down POL pipes with pumping stations to fuel their advance by echelon into Western Europe. These were often studied targets for SOF and aerial assets.