PLEASE FOLLOW OUR E BAY STORE. SALE SEE OUR STORE. PLEASE READ WHOLE ADD. Very Interesting History Fact. Part of the American Theater. Of World War II. A schematic of the Panama Canal, illustrating the sequence of locks and passages. Of the Panama Canal. Unternehmen Pelikan , also known as Projekt 14, was a German plan for crippling the Panama Canal. During World War II. In mid-late 1943 the Wehrmacht. Had completed preparations to haul two Ju 87 Stukas. With folding wings on two U-boats. To an unnamed Colombian. Island near the coast of Panama. Reassemble the planes, arm them with “special bombs”, and then send them to attack the Gatun Dam. After completing the mission, the pilots would fly to a neutral country and seek internment. However, Germany called off the plan, for unknown reasons, at the last minute. Rumors among the Germans who planned the sabotage were that it had been called off due to betrayal. Most of these types of plans involved acts of sabotage. Using agents in place and/or landed by U-boat.
