I know I am late: Just saw Valkyrie

[jon_norstog]

Of course it helped that we received intelligence about the heavy water work at Telemark, Norway, and a group of British-trained Norwegian commandos bombed the heavy water plant, bringing production to a temporary halt and increasing security in the area. The result was a series of bomber raids that convinced the Germans to abandon the plant. In 1944, they attempted to move the plant's stored output of heavy water to Germany by train. A Norwegian agent then bombed the train ferry carrying the entire product of the plant, sending it to the bottom of a deep fjord and ending the program.

Bob

More HERE.

The Haukelieder and the Norstogs were one family that kind of split up around 1870 or so. The Haukelieder stayed at Haukelea and the Norstogs move to Norstog. Well, my cousin Knut Haukelid was a subsistence hunter in the '30s. When the war came, he and his friends hooked up with the British and got some training at a castle in Scotland.
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They were taken back to Norway and went to ground, living in alpine huts and snow caves and eating what they could kill. Knut led the attack on the power plant where the Germans were making heavy water. The Germans rebuilt the plant and put a full battalion in to guard it. There wAS NOT GOING TO BE A REPEAT of the previous successful attack.

The Germans had to move the heavy water out in drums, by truck. The route included a ferry ride. The British thought the best thing was to blow the ferry, so they sent out the directions and materiel. Knut was the man who set up the operation.

I guess the heavy water is still down there at the bottom. Knut always regretted the innocent Norwegians he killed in the operation. He was haunted by the blood he shed in the war, especially that operation.

jn