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WWII Hero Credits Luck and Chance in Foiling Hitler’s Nuclear Ambitions

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ALESUND, Norway — For a man who saved the world, or at least helped ensure that Adolf Hitler never got hold of a nuclear bomb, 96-year-old Joachim Ronneberg has a surprisingly unheroic view of the forces that shape history.

“There were so many things that were just luck and chance,” he said of his 1943 sabotage mission that blew up a Norwegian plant vital to Nazi Germany’s nuclear program. “There was no plan. We were just hoping for the best,” Mr. Ronneberg, Norway’s most decorated living war hero, added.

The leader and only living member of a World War II commando team that destroyed the Nazis’ only source of heavy water, a rare fluid needed to produce nuclear weapons, Mr. Ronneberg has had his exploits celebrated in a 1965 blockbuster movie, “The Heroes of Telemark,” starring Kirk Douglas; been showered with military medals; and been honored, belatedly, with a statue and museum display in his hometown here onNorway’s west coast.
 
My pleasure............I've been on a big WWII history kick and this is a couple of my favorite sites (War History Online & Military History Online). It blows my mind how close Hitler came ruling it all (he was so close), had he not kept changing the targets of Operation Barbarossa; I read the link below a couple of weeks ago.

Operation Barbarossa: The Ultimate Strategic Miscalculation

Also, Hitler wanted to invade Russia far earlier, but he had to help Italy control Greece so that hurt the timeline by a couple of months.......it's the little things.
 
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Luck is usually dressed in overalls and looks like work....

This guy may have helped...
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My pleasure............I've been on a big WWII history kick and this is a couple of my favorite sites (War History Online & Military History Online). It blows my mind how close Hitler came ruling it all (he was so close), had he not kept changing the targets of Operation Barbarossa; I read the link below a couple of weeks ago.

Operation Barbarossa: The Ultimate Strategic Miscalculation

Also, Hitler wanted to invade Russia far earlier, but he had to help Italy control Greece so that hurt the timeline by a couple of months.......it's the little things.
I google mapped where the Hydro place was in Norway...just a tiny little place in the middle of no where. Just amazes me what these men did with what they had...no GPS, no satellite imagery or communications that we take for granted...
 
Luck is usually dressed in overalls and looks like work....

Here is the 'luck' they are referring to.

Still mentally sharp at his advanced age and still possessed of the unflappable calm that so impressed British military commanders more than 70 years ago, he recalled how, during a day off from training in Cambridge, England, in early 1943, he went to a movie theater and then happened “entirely by chance” to walk by a hardware store selling heavy-duty metal cutters. He decided to buy a pair on the off chance they might come in handy, and he took them on his sabotage mission.

Without this happenstance purchase, Mr. Ronneberg said, he and his men would never have been able to gain entry to and destroy the heavily guarded heavy water production plant at Vemork, in southern Norway. The handsaw that British planners had intended for use on a heavy padlock on the plant’s side gate, he said, would have taken too much time, made too much noise and alerted Nazi guards. The success of the mission “was mostly luck, definitely,” he said, smiling at his memories of a nighttime raid that, until the very end, had seemed a suicide mission.

This guy may have helped...
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That movie does look great.
 
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