Now this guy is one that deserves our thanks and we should be thankful for what he was able to do for all of us:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45938874
What a hero. I don't remember details from the film adaptation of the story but he (and his team) achieved what must have seemed the impossible. And also survived.
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You've led me to read more about it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
The general consensus is that the Germans would never have managed to get a nuclear bomb going during the war (by 1945, anyway) even if we hadn't been endlessly destroying their kit. Doesn't make it any less brave an act, of course.
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>> The general consensus is that the Germans would never have managed to get a nuclear
>> bomb going during the war (by 1945, anyway) even if we hadn't been endlessly destroying
>> their kit. Doesn't make it any less brave an act, of course.
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Hindsight is 20:20!
The even remote risk of Nazi Germany getting the bomb was unacceptable.
There is a myth that a message was on a desk of the security services in London re the heavy water shipment on this ferry:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF_Hydro
The security officer dismissed the report thinking "who cares about a shipment of water!" not realising the significance of "heavy".
A scientific officer hearing the officer commenting on the dismissing of the message took the message to higher authorities.
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World War II Hero - Rest in Peace - Mapmaker
