On the morning of August 29, 1940, amidst the ferocious Battle of Britain that roared in the skies, a select group of men, handpicked by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, boarded an ocean liner and departed the country. At that moment, this British team on board the vessel represented the last glimmer of hope for a beleaguered Europe.
Comprising the United Kingdom’s foremost civilian and military scientists, the group embarked on a journey to Washington, DC, in an attempt to turn the tide of the war, which had been heavily favoring Nazi Germany until then.
Officially designated the British Technical and Scientific Mission, the men informally referred to it as the Tizard Mission, named after their leader, Sir Henry Tizard, the chairman of Britain's Aeronautical Research Committee. Their objective was to share Britain’s latest military technological breakthroughs with the hesitant American government in exchange for access to the United State’s vast industrial capacity, thus facilitating the production of weapons derived from the research.
Among the many secrets transported across the Atlantic was a critical piece of hardware invented only months prior. As several historians have noted, the Tizard Mission helped bring incredibly valuable cargo to the shores of America...
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