| Entry Text: | LANCE, Rachel. Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever. 484p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Bedford Square Publishers, 2024. ISBN: 9781835010686. Tells the story of a small group of researchers, experimenting on themselves from inside pressure tanks in the middle of London, who explored the complicated science needed to design the reconnaissance vessels and underwater breathing apparatuses that would underpin the reconnaissance of the landing beaches which preceded D-Day. Also covers the pre-war sinking of the submarine Thetis which demonstrated the issues and the absence of reconnaissance of the Dieppe beaches in 1942. |
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