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SUMMARY:The Heavy Water Sabotage Raid with Mitch Utterback
DESCRIPTION:Spy Museum Description: \nJoin us for an intense exploration of Operation Gunnerside on the 82nd anniversary of the mission. One of the Allies’ most dramatic sabotage missions of WWII\, Gunnerside was a daring plan to derail the Nazis’ scheme to build an atomic bomb. A key component of their bomb recipe was heavy water—deuterium oxide. When Germany occupied Norway\, the remote Vemork Norsk Hydro plant\, which produced heavy water\, came under Nazi control. The Allies\, desperate to prevent a nuclear-armed Germany\, devised the daring Operation Gunnerside to disable the plant. \nThe epic tale of the Norwegian commandos who parachuted onto the Vidda (mountain plateau) in the winter and skied\, climbed\, and clawed their way to the plant to blow up the heavy water reserves\, sounds like a movie\, and did become one starring Kirk Douglas! Retired US Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Mitch Utterback was drawn to the famous World War II sabotage mission and recently retraced the ski tracks of the Heroes of Telemark. In 2023\, for the 80th anniversary\, Utterback and a team of 11 other military veterans recreated the perilous journey that the saboteurs took across the Vidda. Their expedition was captured in the short documentary film Hardangerfolk which brings the danger and intensity of the mission to life. Utterback’s background in special forces and his experience of the conditions that the saboteurs endured has given him a unique perspective on this epic mission which the Spy Museum features in our Covert Action gallery. \n 
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