Operation PLUTO Traditional Cache
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PLUTO was the acronym used for the Pipe Line Under The Ocean that ran from Greatstone under the English Channel to the French coast to supply fuel to the allied D Day invasion army in the second world war.
It was the ingenious plan, amongst others, of Lord Louis Mountbatten to support troops after D-Day.
The idea of PLUTO was that the required fuel would be moved across the country by pipe line to the south east coast, including Greatstone, and then continuing the pipe line under the channel to France.
It was felt that transporting the large amount of fuel that would be needed to service the invasion by ship would be too dangerous and vulnerable to attack from the German Air Force.
Operation PLUTO formally started on 12 August 1944 more than two months after D-Day. The pipeline into Greatstone came from Walton on Thames in Surrey, where it linked into the main UK pipeline network.
Covering a distance of 70 miles it came across Romney Marsh and terminated in the Greatstone PLUTO 'bungalows'.
There were five such installations sited in Leonard Road, Greatstone, three on the west side being used as pumping stations and two on the east side as staff quarters.
From these installations the fuel was pumped the short distance across Greatstone beach and then onward to France via PLUTO.
As PLUTO pump stations, the buildings were single story and after the war they were converted for residential use, two since having a second story built.
You can see the PLUTO bungalows in Leonard Road, numbers 51 & 53 were the pump houses and opposite number 54 & 56 staff quarters. If you dont sign the log book then dont log it online.
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