Operation_Pelikan

Operation Pelikan

Operation Pelikan

German plan for disabling the Panama Canal during World War II

Operation Pelikan (German: Unternehmen Pelikan), also known as Projekt 14, was a German plan for crippling the Panama Canal during World War II. In mid-late 1943 the Wehrmacht had completed preparations to haul two Ju 87 Stukas with folding wings on two U-boats to an unnamed Colombian island near the coast of Panama, reassemble the planes, arm them with "special bombs", and then send them to attack the Gatun Dam. After completing the mission, the pilots would fly to a neutral country and seek internment. However, Germany called off the plan, for unknown reasons, at the last minute. Rumors among the Germans who planned the sabotage were that it had been called off due to betrayal.

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Most of these types of plans involved acts of sabotage using agents in place and/or landed by U-boat.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Daley, Jason. "Documents Show Chile Foiled Nazi Plot to Attack Panama Canal". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  2. ↑
    Ladislas Farago's The Game of the Foxes: The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain During World War II has a brief mention on the plan.
  3. ↑
    They Came to Destroy America: The FBI Goes to War Against Nazi Spies & Saboteurs During World War II (2003) by Stan Cohen, Don DeNevi, and Richard Gray

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