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Operation Sunshine

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district D16, under command of district leader Oscar Beck, and Milorg organized around 450 men in this district in October 1944. In the end this section could mobilize a military force of 900 soldiers. The troops received air drops with weapons, ammunition, uniforms and food supplies. Some of the men
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in London. An important goal was to protect the power plant industry in Norway, and the targeted operation area was chosen such that it comprised sixty percent of the energy supplies in Eastern Norway. This included power stations in the
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had five such cells. Others still lived and worked as normal, having attended short military courses, and belonging to a group local to their home place.
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as wireless operator. In the surrounding mountains a military force consisting of 300 soldiers was built up. Main defending targets were the dam at
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as wireline operator. About 500 men were organised in this section at the end of December 1944. Important defending targets were
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in cooperation with British forces, and part of an effort to protect essential installations and industry, in particular large
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had left their homes and stayed in mountain cabins, organized in small cells, each of around ten men.
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section. When Tronstad was killed in March 1945, Poulsson took over as leader of Sunshine.
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had around ten such group, where the number of group members varied from 30 to 150.
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For the U.S. Navy mission to execute a submerged transit across the North Pole, see
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district 16 (D-16), and was divided in three subsections, with the codenames
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team, were selected for the mission and para-dropped over Ugleflott in
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5 October 1944. The overall leader of Operation Sunshine was Major
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districts. The district covered by Sunshine was separated out as
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from allied aircraft, and provided with military instruction.
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as wireline operator. Their main defending target was the
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Index

Operation Sunshine (USS Nautilus)
Second Battle of Dernancourt
Munich massacre
occupied Norway
Norwegian military personnel in the United Kingdom
power stations
scorched earth
Germans
World War II
Leif Tronstad
Norwegian Ministry of Defence
Rjukan
Notodden
Kongsberg
Nore
SOE
heavy water sabotage
Øvre Telemark
Leif Tronstad
Gunnar Syverstad
Norman Lind
Einar Skinnarland
Jens-Anton Poulsson
Telemark
Buskerud
Milorg
Milorg
air drops

Nore Power Station

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