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Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of Norwegians fought in Norway's Resistance movement against the occupying Nazis. More than 2,000 of them, both men and women, died in action, by execution, or in concentration camps.
The Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a series of actions taken by Norwegian saboteurs during World War II to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water which could be used to produce nuclear weapons.
Between 1942 and 1944 a sequence of sabotage actions by the Norwegian resistance movement, as well as Allied bombing, ensured the destruction of the plant and the loss of the heavy water produced. These operations — codenamed "Freshman", "Grouse" and "Gunnerside" — finally managed to knock the plant out of production in early 1943, basically ending the German research.

The raid was later dubbed by the British SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hydro/resistance.html

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[GDHouston]

5/5 stars

[omgim50]

Thanks for the ratings GD.

[morriscamorris]

Thank you Norwegians, You helped to stop the Nazi domination of the world. Few people in my country are aware of heroic things done by people in europe that resulted in the defeat of the Nazi regime.

The only thing we did was to sent mexican pilots to fight in the battle for the Phillipines along with US air force.

[haakonbrachel]

These guys are real heroes!

[iParatrooper]

This is a story about a real war. "At all costs... even if civilians had to be killed." Contrast that with fucking obama apologizing for a few burned korans.

[dave1986R]

I read a book based on this event in WWII. It's amazing that while the British were trying to come up with a new plan, the Americans just bombed the place. That's the attitude that makes the US military what it is. Do what needs to be done.

[Superxgenesis2]

@morriscamorris i look up to max manus. he is in my friends family.

[vliegendehollander55]

Great heroes! I am from Holland and thank them deeply...

[RsnQuQ]

@FreestylaBoy You can accually find a map of the facility and air feild at Battlefield 1942. bad grafichs. still amzeing.

[wondercourage]

This is an astonishing story , if I hadn't seen it i'd find it hard to believe .

Heroic exploits for freedom .

One action can make a profound difference in the world .

One action becomes won action

This may sound strange because obviously if they could have attacked it by air they would have

what was the obstacle that they wasn't able to bomb it by the air ?

Was it because of civilians ?

they would have but

[michaelwright999]

BRAVE MEN, 

[FreestylaBoy]

What... the only your american bombs did was killing innocent norwegians.

[FreestylaBoy]

I wich the Tongtvann sabotage was an Call of Duty mission XD