Weasels were found useful for resupplying front line troops during World War Two, often going where larger vehicles could not
What’s the connection between a strange Englishman who didn’t wear socks and the M29 Weasel? The answer is the proposed Operation Plough, a planned commando raid to Norway which was intended to destroy most of that country’s hydro-electric power plants, including the one the Germans were using as a source for the heavy water they were going to need for their nuclear programme. The strange Englishman was Geoffrey Pyke, an unconventional, single-minded man, regarded by some as a genius (and, incidentally, cousin to TVs Dr Magnus Pyke). Pyke went to the US around April 1942 with some officers from Combined Operations to consider the design of an over-snow vehicle for Operation Plough.
