During WWII a perfectly-executed sabotage operation by British Special Operations and the Norwegian Resistance put a dent in the Nazi’s quest for an atomic bomb. Today, it’s unclear how effective it really was, but it’s still a heckuva story!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is Operation Gunnerside?
Yeah, yeah. It's like former Holmesy.
Yeah.
After they leave that world behind, you know.
Hey, I don't think the other people let you leave that world behind.
Oh, boy.
It's threatening. So where were we, Chuck? Oh, yeah, Gunnerside.
Yeah, we are at Operation Gunnerside. This guy, Rundberg, he didn't know even why that plant was a target. They basically just said, here, old chap, we want you to go destroy some pipes at the plant, and the people that tried before you all died, and you might as well. Pip-pip. Yeah, that's basically it. That's all the information he had. But he was game. He was that kind of guy.
Yeah, I mean, they accepted cyanide pills as part of this operation. And yeah, they had no idea what they were doing. They just knew they had to go blow up some pipes and that was that. Like, this is how dedicated these people were, that they were willing to sacrifice their life to try to blow up some pipes because the Brits told them it was going to help cripple the Nazi war effort. So...
I think there was five of them that parachuted in just like the Operation Swallow people had before. But they were miles, miles away from the landing site. They just maybe got blown off course or something like that.
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Chapter 2: Why was heavy water important during WWII?
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All right, so as you said, the saboteurs got away. I think one of them, Polson, took off to Scotland by sea. Rundberg and the rest of the gang stayed on their skis, as the Norwegians do. They skied about 200 miles, which is like nothing for them. They skied to Sweden, in fact, with Nazis chasing them. They had planes above trying to locate them.
Like that part would be a pretty good part of the movie, I guess.
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