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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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