This was to have been a commando unit that could be landed, by sea or air, into occupied Norway, Romania and/or the Italian Alps on sabotage missions against hydroelectric plants and oil fields. While working for the British Combined Operations Command, Pyke devised a plan for the creation of a small, elite force capable of fighting behind enemy lines in winter conditions. This was part of the British approach in World War II, of encouraging innovative warfare methods and weapons, that was personally backed by Churchill. In lifestyle and appearance, he fit the common stereotype of a scientist-engineer-inventor or in British slang, a " boffin". Geoffrey Pyke was an English journalist, educationalist, and later an inventor whose clever, but unorthodox, ideas could be difficult to implement.
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