The Secret Pipeline Under the Sea That Kept Breaking

⛽ Operation PLUTO: Britain laid fuel pipelines across the bed of the English Channel for the armies of D-Day. The first line broke on day one. 📑 Chapters: 0:00 Broken on day one 1:04 An army that runs on petrol 3:07 A telegraph cable with no wire 7:09 Short of lead: the steel pipe 9:21 The Conundrum, a floating bobbin 10:20 Force Pluto and the hidden pumps 12:30 Waiting for Cherbourg 14:48 The first crossings go wrong 17:12 The armies race away 19:41 Dumbo: the short crossing 24:31 What PLUTO actually delivered 27:49 Salvage, and what survives 📷 Photo credits: Gaius Cornelius (CC BY-SA 4.0), Editor5807 (CC BY 3.0), Crookesmoor (CC BY-SA 3.0), John D Ryan (CC BY 4.0), Paul Coueslant (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons and Geograph. #WW2 #DDay #MilitaryHistory