The Chatham Rats

the long version

They betrayed the British Mediterranean Fleet, fought an action with British destroyers, defied the Luftwaffe, the Italian High Command, the Prussian Gestapo, even a wehrmacht paratroop regiment, and all to buy two years of time. They were called the Chatham Rats. They wore Italian uniforms, carried cyanide capsules, fought secretly with a fast Italian destroyer they had captured, and they had one aim - to find and exterminate the men who designed the first guided missile in history.