"Operation Castle" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Jan 2020 4:04 p.m. PST |
"Over the holidays I was watching, for the ‘nth' time, the film ‘Heroes of Telemark' – the classic 1965 film starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris. It was based on a real WW2 operation to sabotage Norwegian heavy water production, which the Nazi's needed for atomic bomb research. It reminded me of another planned raid I came across by accident in the National Archives last year. This was Operation Castle, a plan to destroy the hydroelectric power station at Blaafjeldit near Jossingfjord in Norway. It powered a nearby Ilmenite mine, the sole German source of the mineral. It is the most important ore of titanium, today an important strategic alloy metal, but in the 1930's it was widely used as titanium oxide in paint, fabrics etc. The British analysis was, ‘a commodity of some importance though not of great importance to Germany's war effort." …"
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 Legion 4   | 23 Jan 2020 4:17 p.m. PST |
Very interesting operation to blow up the heavy water, I've studied it before too. The movie was not bad either. |
| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2020 12:02 p.m. PST |
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