Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Gliders Are on the Ground Through the Winter, Right?
They were parachuted onto the Hödangivida, miles from where they needed to be with all these stores and equipment that they needed to move. Their food, their ashens were already deteriorating. They had a nightmare because the snow hadn t properly formed. It was really difficult to move their stores and supplies to the remote hut that they would be using to hide themselves. And they lost an awful lot of weight doing it.
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