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force of concentration camp inmates. Combining their experience and
expertise in military construction, terrain and logistics, Kemp and Weigold ruled out previously held theories behind
the purpose of the tunnels and made a shocking discovery.
“We have uncovered incontrovertible evidence that a top-secret launch site for V1 missiles...was being constructed on the island,” they said.
The V1, the doodlenug, was the prototype for today’s cruise missiles, with which Hitler intended to devastate England.
The reason for the secrecy was that they were to be armed not with conventional explosives, but with internationally outlawed chemical warheads, including nerve agents Sarin and Tabun. The pair
say they had not seen anything like it in northern Europe. They calculated that the tunnels could have housed as many as 72 missiles at one time.
They could even pinpoint their potential targets by the direction of the rocket launch ramps. It suggests the target for
the bombs was along the southern coast
of England from Weymouth to Plymouth, where in late 1943 and 1944 hundreds of thousands of British and American troops prepared for the D-Day invasion.
“If the Alderney missiles had been fired – and our conclusion is that they were within a whisker of this happening – their chemical payloads would have thrown Allied invasion plans into such chaos that D-Day could not have taken place on June 6, 1944, and the whole course of World War II would have been drastically altered.”
They suggested it would have put the Allies on the back foot, and might even have allowed Hitler to fulfil his ambition to conquer Britain.
"We came to the conclusion, with other factors, that this is why they were sited in Alderney, because you could construct and prepare V1's with nerve agent warheads on them, which you could do in total secrecy given the unique circumstances
of Alderney, there was no possibility of anyone discovering it," Colonel Kemp said.
The research seems to confirm eye- witness reports, including one of chemical canisters being unloaded onto the island and frequent gas drills where German soldiers wore masks for a whole day at a time – even on the heads of their horses – but not the prisoners.
“In our professional military capacities, we are well versed in aspects of chemical weaponry...What we are now sure is that Alderney had a fully developed secret V1 site for missiles loaded with deadly nerve agent.”
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