
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
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Major Professor Leif Tronstad
Fenrik Kasper Idland
Sersjant Birger Strømsheim
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Overview
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
Release Date
1948-02-05
Average
5.2
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