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The Brits made a film about it in 1965 called The Heroes of Telemark, and Norwegians made a TV series in 2015, entitled The Heavy Water War. It is worth noting, however, that the Norwegian guerilla did participate in the battle, because after American bombings forced Germans to abandon the power plant, local partisans blew up a ferry that tried to take the last heavy water supplies to Germany.Īlistair MacLean's book is definitely more famous than the real story, but it has made some impact on pop-culture. DICE told a story that was rather loosely inspired by those events, in the mission 'Nordlys.' Instead of the Norwegian commandos, we have a young girl from the resistance, who destroys the heavy water supplies herself, but – as in reality – there was plenty of skiing in this mission, too. This operation was recently recreated in Battlefield 5. We've begun this article with this particular event for a good reason. The rest, with various injuries, were soon captured by Germans and executed. In fact, several soldiers in both of them were killed on the spot. Bad weather, dense clouds, and ice on aircrafts' skins had calamitous effects – one of the bombers crashed, and the gliders had a rather rough emergency landings. On-site, they were to link with Norwegians from the Grouse group. Thirty British sappers from a unit of the Royal Engineers were to arrive aboard two Horsa gliders towed by Handley Page Halifax bombers. Four Norwegian scouts, prepared for the occasion by the British Special Operations Executive, successfully infiltrated enemy territory and prepared the ground for the next operation – codename 'Freshman.' This one, however, ended in a spectacular disaster.Ī month's training in Wales preparing soldiers for this particular task, went in vain. The first operation, codename 'Grouse,' took place in October 1942. The Vemork hydroelectric power station in the county of Telemark, Norway, offered the most convenient way of dealing with the threat. Heavy water was necessary for the production of an atomic bomb, and the allies wanted to delay the development of such weapons by the Germans at any cost, for obvious reasons.

The Heavy Water Sabotage was an attempt of the allied forces to hinder Nazi nuclear development, concluded with a secret action by Norwegian commandos. Vemork hydroelectric power station, 1935. Now, I don't think I need to convince you how nourishing a theme the War has been for video games – with especially the late 1990s and early 2000s bringing classics such as the original Medal of Honor, Hidden and Dangerous, or Commandos. With high-octane action and a cast of stern-looking alpha males, hits such as The Dirty Dozen or The Guns of Navarone became the defining classics of war cinema. First, thanks Scotsman Alistair Maclean's bestsellers ( Ice Station Zebra, When Eight Bells Toll), and then their blockbuster, Hollywood adaptations. The dangerous, secretive operations of the highly-trained commandos stirred our imagination from the very beginning, and became a fertile inspiration for pop-culture in general after the war. Others have followed suit, producing, among others, the American Rangers, the Marine Raiders of the USMC, or the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – the predecessor of the CIA. In 1940, the British Commandos were created, promptly evolving into what we know today as SBS, and SAS. It's the Second World War that gave rise to many of modern special operations units. Enormous, trenched and static battlefields were rendered nearly completely obsolete on September 1, 1939, as the Blitzkrieg raged east – the 'lightning war' was fast, making use of mechanized infantry, and clandestine operations.

war changes, after all! The First World War generated many technologies that have evolved into things we use today the Second forever changed the rules of strategy for all combat units.

Spec ops the line remastered