![]() “It remains a big mystery because it’s actually still classified”įollowing his exploits in Gibraltar after the war, Crabb did various jobs for the Navy then ended up as a civilian, but still in the RNVR. There’s even a scene in Thunderball for example where divers dive on a crashed aeroplane Crabb and the team dived on a crashed bomber in which Sikorski, the leader of the Polish Army, was killed and they went down to recover his body and papers etc. Ian Fleming was in MI6 and knew Crabb and the guys from the UWWP when all of this was happening and the story goes that he based James Bond on Crabb because of the exploits they had in Gibraltar countering the Italian forgmen. They were using neutral Spain, which was illegal of course, to launch their attacks. They cut a hole beneath the water line and began launching their human torpedoes out of an underwater hatch, travelling across the bay, planting their mines and then coming back again. They then had the very clever idea of launching manned torpedoes from inside a ship across the bay in Algeciras. Then they tried underwater swimmers, swimming from the beach towing mines, which they placed on Allied ships just a few hundred yards offshore – and they were very successful at that. ![]() The Italians developed two kinds of attack in Gibraltar, the first attempts were with the human torpedoes, which they initially launched from a submarine inside Gibraltar Bay. Lieutenant Commander Bill Bailey’s Commando knife. ![]()
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