The Creepiest Island of WW2

Doctor Wernher von Braun, the mastermind behind the German V-2 rocket, woke up in the middle of the night after hearing the raid sirens of the Peenemünde Army Research Center complex.

Still with sleep in his eyes, he made his way to the raid alert communications center to see if the enemy had truly discovered the top-secret facility on the quiet island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea.

The artificial fog system surrounding the secret complex was activated to shroud it from any eyes above. There must be something wrong with the sirens, a tired engineer muttered. There were no enemy aircraft in the area.

Yet, as von Braun and his team headed back to their quarters, one of the guards noticed something odd. A flare lit up the sky, then another, and another. Soon, the artificial fog had disappeared, completely exposing the base.

The roaring sound of a hundred engines signaled the beginning of Operation Hydra: Britain’s plan to get rid of the V-2 rocket program. Von Braun and the entire team of German scientists were about to face a rain of bombs…
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