National Geographic: Untold Stories of World War II Page #2
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establish a secret landing field
on the Hardangervidda,
a huge plateau north of the factory.
Crossing that bleak expanse,
the Norwegians took over an empty cabin
and made radio contact with England.
For the first sortie, the British sent
a force in gliders towed by bombers
a plan that needed clear weather.
But over Norway, clouds, winds,
and snow had cut visibility
to near zero.
For the Norwegians on the ground...
the flight had become
I tried to get a connection
with England
and warn them that
at that time it wasn't possible.
And then, suddenly,
I heard interference in my headphones
and I knew they were not far away.
And shortly after, we also heard
the engines on the aircraft,
and it came dead on us,
passed over us and disappeared.
After about half an hour,
the next plane with a guide glider came
and it came right to us correctly,
turned, and went away.
The British troops never arrived
at the rendezvous point.
We got a message from
London that both gliders
and one of the Halifaxes had crashed
in the mountains.
That was the end of
the Freshman operation.
It was a complete disaster.
The soldiers who survived the crash
were rounded up and executed.
The Allies' secret war against the
heavy-water factory was now exposed.
To avoid detection,
into the Hardangervidda.
For weeks, perhaps months,
they would have to live off a land
where little existed but snow and ice.
When this mission
of the gliders failed,
we had actually no supplies
for further stay in the mountains.
So we were dependent upon reindeer,
but at that moment, there were few
or no reindeer at all in our area,
because of the wind directions.
It was so very difficult
to get the reindeers,
but the day before Christmas,
Jens, he shot a reindeer.
Jens learned that if you take
the stomach of a reindeer,
you get vitamins
from the reindeer moss.
So we cut up the stomach and
took out the reindeer moss,
the contents, and mixed it
with blood and everything,
and made a nice porridge mixed
with brain.
And we were eating it
and it probably saved our lives.
So on Christmas Eve...
we had a real fun party.
We chatted; we had a good time
at Christmas Eve.
I remember well.
You know your comrades outside
and inside.
You know what he is going to say
before he opens his mouth.
They had endurance, they had the will
to hold on when there is nothing
in you except the will which says
to hold on.
They would have to hold on through
But each day the Nazis' supply
drop by precious drop.
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