Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the start of World War II, Nazi Germany had a long lead in building atomic weapons. It was German scientists who discovered ...

U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Mitch Utterback’s talk on “Operation Gunnerside” is set for Thursday at East Grand Forks Campbell Library and Monday in Thief River Falls Mitch Utterback poses at the ...

In late February 1943, nine commandos set out of daring raid against the Germans in the Norwegian wilderness. Their mission, to destroy a plant producing heavy water, would fulfill one of the Allies' ...

In February 1943, Operation Gunnerside saw a team of Norwegian commandos, trained by the British SOE, infiltrate the heavily guarded Vemork plant. Braving freezing rivers, steep ravines, and deadly ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Without firing a shot, nine Norwegian commandos in February 1943 pulled off an extraordinary act of sabotage, called by some the ...