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Operation Grouse (Normandy)
Operation Grouse may refer to: * Operation Grouse (Normandy), a British advance towards Tinchebray, France, in 1944 * Operation Grouse (Norway), a sabotage raid against the Vermork heavy water plant, Norway, in 1942 * Operation Grouse (Czechoslovakia), German Nazi operation against Czech partisans in Beskid Mountains, in 1944 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Grouse (Normandy)
Operation Grouse may refer to: * Operation Grouse (Normandy), a British advance towards Tinchebray, France, in 1944 * Operation Grouse (Norway), a sabotage raid against the Vermork heavy water plant, Norway, in 1942 * Operation Grouse (Czechoslovakia), German Nazi operation against Czech partisans in Beskid Mountains, in 1944 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Grouse (Norway)
Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne operation conducted using Airspeed Horsa gliders, and its target was the Vemork ''Norsk Hydro'' hydrogen electrolysis plant in Telemark, Norway which produced heavy water as a byproduct. By 1942, the German nuclear weapons programme had come close to being able to develop a nuclear reactor, but in order for the reactor to function it would require a great deal of heavy water. The source of the heavy water was the Norsk Hydro plant, which had been occupied since 1940. When the British government learned of the German nuclear developments, it was decided that a raid would be launched to destroy the plant and deny the Germans the heavy water required to develop a nuclear weapon. Several different strategies were discussed and discarded as impractical; it was decided that a small airborne force composed of sappers from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Žižka Partisan Brigade
The 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka ( cs, 1. československá partizánská brigáda Jana Žižky or ''Partyzánská brigáda Jana Žižky z Trocnova''), initially known as Ušiak-Murzin Unit, was the largest partisan unit in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (modern day Czech Republic) during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. After its core membership of Soviet-trained paratroopers were dropped into Slovakia in August 1944, the brigade crossed into Moravia and began operations in earnest at the end of 1944. Its focus was guerrilla warfare, especially sabotage and intelligence gathering. Background German occupation In 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced his intentions to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia with a high ethnic German population. As the previous appeasement of Hitler had shown, the governments of both France and Britain were intent on avoiding war. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other Western po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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