Building the NM&RC

[steinjr]

That's interesting that they sank the ferry too...

The resistance had to do it, even though it killed 14 of our own civilians (passengers and crew) in addition to the four German soldiers escorting the RR cars with the heavy water across the lake - we could not afford to take any chances on the Germans getting atomic weapons.

In total it cost 88 allied lives to stop the heavy water production - 44 British commando soldiers and pilots who died when their gliders iced down and crashed in the mountains on the way to Rjukan in november of '42, 22 Norwegian civilians and 10 US Army Air Force crewmen when the USAAF bombed Rjukan in November of 1943, and the 14 civilians who went down with MF Hydro in February 1944.

Stein