- L. D. Cross.
Code Name Habbakuk.
Toronto: Heritage House, 2012.
ISBN 978-1-927051-47-4.
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World War II saw the exploration, development, and in some cases
deployment, of ideas which, without the pressure of war, would
be considered downright wacky. Among the most outlandish was
the concept of building an enormous aircraft carrier (or
floating airbase) out of reinforced ice. This book recounts the
story of the top secret British/Canadian/U.S. project to develop
and test this technology. (The title is not misspelled: the
World War II project was spelled “Habbakuk”, as
opposed to the Old Testament prophet, whose name was
“Habakkuk”. The reason for the difference in
spelling has been lost in the mists of time.)
January 2021 