NORWEGIAN COMMANDOS HALT HEAVY WATER PRODUCTION
In February 1943’s Operation Gunnerside Norwegian saboteurs temporarily crippled heavy-water production crucial to Germany’s atomic weapons program.
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ALLIED REWARDS LIKELY FROM RADAR STATION RAID
London, England • February 27, 1942 Under the cover of darkness on this date in 1942, 119 British paratroopers kicked off Operation Biting when they parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy close to a German radar station in the parish (commune) of La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer, 12 miles/19 km north of the large French harbor of Le Havre. A number of what…
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REWARDS LIKELY FROM RADAR STATION RAID
London, England · February 27, 1942 Under the cover of darkness on this date in 1942, 119 British paratroopers kicked off Operation Biting when they parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy close to a German radar station in the parish (commune) of La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer, 12 miles north of the large French harbor of Le Havre. A number of what…