Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of Knohakli
"It's easy to underestimate how difficult it was. Hollywood makes it look easy. It wasn't," he says. The men are going to make the attack in British uniforms as commandos so that if they're captured or killed, there's a greater likelihood that the Germans won't take reprisals on the local population. They ski down from their forward operating heart to the road that runs through the valley. And there they secrete their rucksacks for their escape mission and take with them only what they need for the mission,. "They climb up the mountainside zigzagging underneath the cable car."
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