WWII British Operation Pluto (Pipe Lines Under the Ocean)

WWII British Operation Pluto (Pipe Lines Under the Ocean)

Operation Pluto — meaning Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean. This scheme was a daring operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.