Operation Gunnerside
Heavy Water Plant
True or False
Key Locations
The Heroes
100

This Allied country provided direct support for Operation Gunnerside

What is the United Kingdom?

100

How the team entered the water plant?

What is the cable duct and broken window?

100

The signal for withdrawal after the mission was completed was "Piccadilly"

True, followed up with "Leicester Square"

100

The town that holds the heavy water plant.

Where is Vemork?

100

The leader of the group of men for Gunnerside.

Who is Ronneberg?

200

What the men were told to do if wounded or taken prisoner.

What is ending their own lives using the capsules?

200

The two terrain obstacles that surrounded the water plant.

What are mountains and a gorge?

200

Kayser didn't believe they would make an escape/survive.

False, that was Idland

200

Where the men on the mission were trained.

What is Scotland?

200

The man who would often be found smoking a cigarette or pipe.

Who is Poulsson?

300

The number of matches they used once inside the plant.

What is 4?

300

The two men who went into the plant through the ducts to place the explosives.

Who are Ronneberg and Kayser?

300

The weather event that made their trek after the mission difficult is called a foehn.

True, the definition being "a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind in the lee of a mountain range"

300

The name of the plateau where Poulsson and his men awaited the Gunnerside men's arrival. 

What is Hardanger?

300

The man who could not ski well and wanted to shoot Kristian Kristiansen.

Who is Idland?

400

The date that Gunnerside launched.

What is February 17th, 1943?

400

The name of the man who worked at the plant who provided up-to-date information.

Who is Rolf Sorlie?

400

The workers at the plant weren't very alarmed after the initial explosions because there were small explosions every day from the heavy water apparatuses.

False, the explosions came frequently from burners used for regaining deuterium from hydrogen gas by combustion.

400

The name of the river they had to cross to get to/from the plant.

What is the river Måna?

400

The man known as "The Chicken"

Who is Storhaug?

500

Name all nine men involved in the mission.

Who are Kayser, Stromsheim, Idland, Ronneberg, Haukelid, Poulsson, Helberg, Kjelstrup, Storhaug?

500

The name of the Norwegian workman who was inside the plant taking notes.

Who is Gustav Johansen?

500

Helberg split off from everyone after reaching the mountain ridge leading to the plateau because he had to go to the cabin in Fjosbudalen.

True, he left civilian clothes there to dry and had to go back for them.

500

The name of the dam that supplied water to the plant.

What is the Mös dam?

500

The man who was a former plumber.

Who is Kjelstrup?

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