SPECIAL operations executive"The S.O.E was the headquarters of the secret service based operations in Britain. They supported resistance in all enemy occupied countries. A group of Norwegian men were trained at the S.O.E. These trained Norwegian men became the S.O.E teams that sabotaged the Heavy Water Plant, stopping the production of heavy water that Hitler was using to develop the German Atomic Bomb."
(Gallagher, Assault in Norway, p.52) |
"We not only learned to force locks and break open safes, but we were taught the use of explosives in all circumstances, both in battle and elsewhere. It is incredible what a man can do with a handful of explosives placed at the right place at the right time--he can hault an army or devastate the machinery on which a whole community depends. We learned to use pistols, knives and poison, together with the weapons nature had given
us--our fists and feet."
--Knut Haukelid
Operation Gunnerside, 2nd in Command
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