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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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To: jmhollen who wrote (122374)7/12/2009 9:13:20 PM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (1) of 206184
 
The operation of which you speak occurred in Norway, not the Netherlands.
It was also essentially an operation of Norwegian resistance movement, with British bumbling also part of the action.

en.wikipedia.org

Aside from the temporary destruction of the hydroelectric production plant,
the last large shipment of heavy water was destroyed by sinking a civilian lake ferry, with some "collateral damage".

The movie version of all this was "The_Heroes_of_Telemark", not the "Dambusters":

en.wikipedia.org

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