Home Army and V1 and V2

Aside from military operations, the Polish Home Army was also heavily involved in intelligence work, including work done with regard to the German "Wunderwaffe" - the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket. British intelligence received their first Polish report regarding the development at Peenemünde in 1943. FOOTNOTE: there are no material evidence, nor first-hand reports on capturing a whole rocket in May 1944, only several second-hand ones. An Intelligence report from June 12 mentions only parts of a rocket.] Operation Most III (Bridge III) secretly transported parts of the rocket out of Poland for analysis by British intelligence.

Impact on the course of the war

While the early knowledge on a rocket by AK was quite a feat in pure intelligence terms, it did not necessarily translate into significant results on the ground. On the other hand, the AK did alert the British as to the dangers posed by the rockets which led them to allocate more resources to bombing production and launching sites and thus lessened the eventual devastation caused by them. Also, the Operation Hydra bombing raid on Peenemünde, purportedly carried out on the basis of Home Army intelligence, did delay the V-2 by six to eight weeks.cite book |last=Middlebrook|first=Martin|authorlink=|title=The Peenemünde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943|year=1982|publisher=Bobs-Merrill|location=New York|pages=p222]

References

*Churchill 'Memoirs of the Second World War'
*Eisenhower 'European Crusade'

* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1841765414&id=70WtsC6kYtwC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=tuchola&sig=B_pf0sPkcfpSiQKa42FeRr9AYX8 V-2 Ballistic Missile 1942 - 52]