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12-04-2004, 11:10 AM
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12-04-2004, 11:12 AM
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Country:  | nope, they were para dropped on a ice flat in norway i believe.............
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12-04-2004, 11:15 AM
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Country:  | Did you see Ray Meare's programme about the mission? Only the super-tough needed apply! | |
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12-04-2004, 11:16 AM
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12-04-2004, 11:25 AM
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12-04-2004, 11:26 AM
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Country: | The team that was sent out to make a reconnaissance of the plant had so much equipment, they had to 'shuttle' it all the way over the glacier.
That is to say, they carried half of the gear several miles, and then after dumping it, went back to get the other half. Then they would keep repeating the process all the way. | |
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12-04-2004, 11:30 AM
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Country: | and they were only able to do it by some miracle, one of the Nerwegian temm members came from that area as a child and they actually found one of the sleds he used as a child, they said they wouldn't have been able to do if if they didn't have the sled..................
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12-04-2004, 11:37 AM
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12-04-2004, 12:14 PM
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12-04-2004, 12:24 PM
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12-04-2004, 02:02 PM
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Country: | well not really as it turns out they didn't need the heavy water, how pissed off must the germans have been when they realised..............
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12-04-2004, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass Quote: |
But, the US intelligence people had no idea if it was important or not, so they destroyed it.
| hey hey hey, i aint even gonna read past that line 'till that's been put straight, it was a highly trained group of BRITISH and NORWEGIAN commandos, not an american in sight................. | Scuse me, it was Allied intelligence that decided to conduct the operation. Which arm executed the operation is not the point. | |
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12-04-2004, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass well not really as it turns out they didn't need the heavy water, how pissed off must the germans have been when they realised.............. | They never did. Details at even this level about the A-Bomb program really didn't hit the public until about the 60's. | |
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12-05-2004, 08:06 AM
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it was Allied intelligence that decided to conduct the operation. Which arm executed the operation is not the point.
| ah, so you're saying it was the allies that discouvered it, which means naturally means the amercians destryed it, dude intelligence destroys nothing, the people that carried out the raid are the people that destryed it, simple as that, face it, the americans didn't destry it................
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12-05-2004, 09:13 AM
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