Posted on 10/21/2018 4:25:39 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
OSLO - The leader of a daring World War Two raid to thwart Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions has died aged 99, Norwegian government officials said on Sunday.
Joachim Roenneberg, serving behind enemy lines in his native Norway during the German occupation, in 1943 blew up a plant producing heavy water, or D2O, a hydrogen-rich substance that was key to the later development of atomic bombs.
Picked by Britain's war-time Special Operations Executive to lead the raid when he was only 23 years old, Roenneberg was the youngest member of Operation Gunnerside, which penetrated and destroyed key parts of the heavily guarded Norsk Hydro plant.
The subject of books and documentaries as well as movies and a TV drama series, the attack took place without a single shot fired.
While historians doubt that Adolf Hitler's Germany would have been able to produce a nuclear weapon in time to stave off defeat, they also recognize that the risks were much harder to quantify in 1943.
Born in 1919 in the town of Aalesund, Roenneberg fled to Britain after the German invasion of Norway in 1940, receiving military training before returning home for several missions during the war.
After the 1945 liberation he became a radio reporter but rarely spoke of his wartime achievements. Later in life he gave speeches and lectures well into his nineties, warning against the destructive force of totalitarianism.
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He looks a little like a bald Clint Eastwood to me.
The real deal. RIP.
Another of the war's lesser-sung heroes. RIP.
Amazon had a great short series, “The Heavy Water War” which gave some additional insight and expanded far beyond “The Heroes of Telemark”. Really, though, it wasn’t until after the war that we learned that the Nazis were nowhere near a bomb, even with the heavy water.
What a hero!
I am just starting on Season 3 of “ The Man in the High Castle”
RIP
Just finished reading a book about this hero “Bomb”. Talk about guts, He was the real deal!
The Japanese on the other hand, detonated their first bomb before we detonated ours...using up all of their fissionable material.
Is it me or does he look like Clint Eastwood’s older brother?
Sources, please.
And traitor Joseph P. Kennedy was deeply saddened
Requiescat in pace
Please don't forget Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford while you're at it.
“...The Japanese on the other hand,
detonated their first bomb before we detonated ours
using up all of their fissionable material...”
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What is your source for this?
7th planet from the sun?
Thank you, Sir. RIP.
I stopped watching season 3 when I saw in episode 3 that they were going to have a perverted scene.
No mas for me.
heavy-water was only a small problem relative to the rest of the problems with the nazi bomb program ... among another problems they lacked many other critical, specialized materials resources, including the ability to machine ultra-hard uranium plates ... their biggest problem was that they ran practically every physicist who tried to teach or apply “jewish physics” (namely quantum physics) out of the country ... the only decent physicist they had left was Heisenberg, who miscalculated the amount of U235 to achieve a chain reaction by two orders of magnitude ... many still debate whether Heisenberg did this on purpose or not ...
“The Japanese on the other hand, detonated their first bomb before we detonated ours...using up all of their fissionable material.”
why do you persist in posting such blatant lies here?
Not specifically related but in the same vein of Scandinavian derring-do, check out a Norwegian named Bernt Balchen.
“The Japanese on the other hand, detonated their first bomb before we detonated ours”
Really? Are you really that retarded to believe such nonsense?
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