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Old 16th February 2010, 10:56
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Re: Parachutist in Manchester Ship Canal

The secret war with Germany: deception, espionage, and dirty tricks, 1939-1945‎ by William B. Breuer

"Yet another German spy parachuted into the Manchester Ship Canal in Lancashire and drowned. His espionage career in Britain had lasted less than five minutes"

Deceiving Hitler: double cross and deception in World War II‎ by Terry Crowdy

"The first of these was an unfortunate fellow who avoided capture by landing in middle of the Manchester Ship Canal near the Mersey estuary on the night of 7 September 1940 and was drowned."
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