Audacious Missions of World War II by The National Archives

Author:The National Archives
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781472829962
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Aerial photograph of the Maan Valley and the Norsk Hydro plant, 1942.

It was estimated that the plant would be put out of action for between eight and 12 months.

After the explosion, the men regrouped outside the plant and skied towards Rjukan. Once on the plateau, the group split up again. Of the combined party of ten officers and men, five managed to cross the Swedish border after a 200-mile ski trek. The other five remained behind, including the wireless operator, who kept transmitting messages, including the report that Gen Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the commander of German troops in Norway, had visited the plant shortly after the attack, ‘which he at once ascribed to personnel from Britain’ and declared it was ‘the most splendid coup [he had] seen this war.’

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