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    water. These operations — code-named Grouse, Freshman, and Gunnerside — knocked the plant out of production in early 1943. In Operation Grouse, the British...
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    Gunnerside is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in Swaledale, on the B6270 road, 3 miles (5 km) east of Muker and 6 miles (10 km) west...
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  • film Kampen om tungtvannet (also known as La bataille de l'eau lourde or Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water). Quite faithful to real events, it...
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    Joachim Rønneberg (category Norwegian Special Operations Executive personnel)
    his resistance work during World War II, most notably commanding Operation Gunnerside, and his post-war war information work. Rønneberg was born in Ålesund...
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    chemist Wallace Carothers died by suicide by cyanide. In the 1943 Operation Gunnerside to destroy the Vemork Heavy Water Plant in World War II (an attempt...
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    members of Operation Grouse slipped away into the wilderness of Hardangervidda. They later contributed to the successful Operation Gunnerside in February...
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  • Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork, see Gunnerside Grouse (1942) – Norwegian guide party for Freshman Gunnerside (1943) – 2nd raid on the Norwegian heavy...
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    Company 1 (NOR.I.C.1) of the British Special Operations Executive including the famous Operation Gunnerside raid of the heavy water plant at Rjukan. On...
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    of heavy water produced to commemorate WWII's Operation Gunnerside. A printing plate used in Operation Bernhard, an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge...
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    were captured and executed by the Germans. In February 1943, SOE's Operation 'Gunnerside' parachuted another six Norwegian agents into the area, to join...
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