https://www.compuserve.com/news/story/0002/20181021/KCN1MV0R1_2
QuoteJoachim Roenneberg, serving behind enemy lines in his native Norway during the German occupation, in 1943 blew up a plant producing heavy water, or D2O, a hydrogen-rich substance that was key to the later development of atomic bombs.
Picked by Britain's war-time Special Operations Executive to lead the raid when he was only 23 years old, Roenneberg was the youngest member of Operation Gunnerside, which penetrated and destroyed key parts of the heavily guarded Norsk Hydro plant.
Compuserve? :o
Reuters actually, but my email is through Compuserve / AOL (from an old CServe account). So that's how I saw the news.
A man why fought real, actual nazis. RIP.
(We should have a saluting smiley.)
RIP Joachim Roenneberg.
However close to fruition the Nazi Atom Bomb would have been, we are forever grateful you kicked the program back on it's ass just that much longer.
RIP and thank you.
I'll have a Scotch & Regular Water for Mr. Roenneberg at Tea Time tomorrow. R.I.P. Joachim.
Quote from: Ubercat on October 21, 2018, 06:22:29 PM
A man why fought real, actual nazis. RIP.
(We should have a saluting smiley.)
RIP Joachim Roenneberg. I remember reading a book in my youth about this raid.
Here is a Salute GIF I've used in the past. Its on Photobucket so not sure it'll show up...
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi186.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx14%2Flangev%2FSalute.gif&hash=7f48a90a3df35ce53dad99df1df85c3ce7398399)
RIP
RIP, he's portrayed in several later epsiodes of The Heavy Water War mini-series (although was not a main character; watched it on Netflix).
RIP to a man we all owe a lot to. Thank you, sir, for your bravery. And success!