water. These operations — code-named Grouse, Freshman, and Gunnerside — knocked the plant out of production in early 1943. In Operation Grouse, the British...

Gunnerside is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in Swaledale, on the B6270 road, 3 miles (5 km) east of Muker and 6 miles (10 km) west...

film Kampen om tungtvannet (also known as La bataille de l'eau lourde or Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water). Quite faithful to real events, it...

his resistance work during World War II, most notably commanding Operation Gunnerside, and his post-war war information work. Rønneberg was born in Ålesund...

chemist Wallace Carothers died by suicide by cyanide. In the 1943 Operation Gunnerside to destroy the Vemork Heavy Water Plant in World War II (an attempt...

members of Operation Grouse slipped away into the wilderness of Hardangervidda. They later contributed to the successful Operation Gunnerside in February...

Company 1 (NOR.I.C.1) of the British Special Operations Executive including the famous Operation Gunnerside raid of the heavy water plant at Rjukan. On...

were captured and executed by the Germans. In February 1943, SOE's Operation 'Gunnerside' parachuted another six Norwegian agents into the area, to join...

growing German interest in heavy water. In 1943 Tronstad planned Operation Gunnerside, in which the German access to heavy water processing at Vemork was...

of heavy water produced to commemorate WWII's Operation Gunnerside. A printing plate used in Operation Bernhard, an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge...

trainees recreated the World War II sinking of SF Hydro during Operation Gunnerside. The unit trains at Rena leir army camp in Rena. "Jegertroppen i...

Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork, see Gunnerside Grouse (1942) – Norwegian guide party for Freshman Gunnerside (1943) – 2nd raid on the Norwegian heavy...

Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...

Operation Roast was a military operation undertaken by British Commandos, at Comacchio lagoon in north-east Italy, during the Spring 1945 offensive in...

subsequently executed by the Germans. On the night of 27 February 1943 Operation Gunnerside succeeded. Norwegian commandos and local resistance managed to demolish...

during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 was skis and sleds, and in Operation Gunnerside, paradropped Norwegian commandos covered a large distance using skis...

and in 1943 the agents of Operation Gunnerside which destroyed the heavy water plant at Rjukan, Vemork, in Norway – an operation later evaluated by SOE as...

Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised operations by the British Special Air Service...

was Don Howison (1921–2020). Canning was the last surviving pilot of Operation Vengeance. The last pilot credited with a confirmed kill was Rex T. Barber...

escalates into a deadly clash between the inmates and the guards. 28: Operation Gunnerside: six Norwegians led by Joachim Rønneberg successfully attack the...

Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork, see Gunnerside Grouse (1942) — Norwegian guide party for Freshman Gunnerside (1943) — 2nd raid on the Norwegian heavy...

four who entered the actual factory building. Operation Gunnerside was later claimed by Special Operations Executive leadership to be the most successful...

Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in...

advisor to the production of heavy water in a Norwegian plant (see Operation Gunnerside). After the war, he collaborated on the shell model of the atomic...

Operation Caesar (Unternehmen Kaiser) was a secret mission carried out by Germany in the Second World War to supply Japan with advanced technology. The...

Heroes of Telemark Anthony Mann Norwegian resistance movement and Operation Gunnerside 1965 United Kingdom The Hill Sidney Lumet British military prison...

world. Vemork is most famous for its proximity to the events of Operation Gunnerside, in which the nearby hydrogen plant is known as Vannstoffen (lit...

nuclear chemistry scientist, planner and organiser of World War II's Operation Gunnerside Tor Olav Trøim, marine engr., shipping and energy industry executive...

sunk by a B-24 of No. 120 Squadron RAF. Operation Gunnerside, a secret mission for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), was carried out by six...

Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy...