Hello everyone, welcome back to part two of the history hit World War Special on the raid on Deep.

I bring you back Professor David O'Keefe, who has spent the last 25 years trying to figure out why

Deep actually took place and you join us at the point where we learn who is in charge, who's coordinating the mission and whether or not they reach that Enigma machine. Enjoy. It's all fascinating, but you've got to take us into detail here about what actually happens with these

raw marine commandos then. Who is it who's in charge of them back on the ship?

Who is it who's coordinated them on the ground, and most importantly, Dave, do they get the

four-roter Enigma machine?

This is part and parcel of this fascinating mystery is whether they get to their target and they get out with it.

Well first of all if we take a look at the force the force is made up of 350 Royal Marine

commandos and they're spread out into two strike forces. The first strike force is on the

HMS locust. The HMS locust is a river gunboat designed for the Yanksi River

for Imperial policing. Well it has a bottom, and that's exactly what they want,

because the idea is kind of like St. Nizare,

except without the explosives,

they are going to run the gauntlet of Diep. In other words, when the operation is unfolding,

they are going to take about half of those 350 Royal Marines and they're going to put them on the deck of the

locust, and they are going to upgun the locust. And the locust is pretty heavily armed. It's a gunboat and they're basically going to sail it straight into Diap Harbor as a strike force. It's going to be cooperating with one Canadian unit called the Essex Scottish, the tanks, the engineers, all to pull off the pinch. Now the idea is that once they get in, there's also going to be a second strike force that's coming in behind and they're going to be on what they call free French chasseurs, which are essentially sloops, and they're following along.

So now you have several contingencies built in and the idea is to swoop into the harbour and in conjunction with the Canadian infantry tanks and engineers to be able to hit not only naval headquarters and what they suspect is a supply depot,

but also to pinch material from all the German vessels that are in the harbor at that time.

And of course, they had been tracking the traffic

for two years by this time,

and they knew the habits of the Germans.

They were still at this point able to tap into the three rotor

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