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"Finally, Rønneberg, the leader of Gunnerside and the last surviving saboteur, who was ninety-six years old in 2016, often spoke eloquently about why he braved the North Sea to be trained in Britain and why he then returned, twice, by parachute, to Norway. "You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Our home villages with the hills, mountains and forests, the lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, waterfall and fjords. The smell of new hay in summer, of birches in spring, of the sea, and the big forest, and even the biting winter cold. Everything . . . Norwegian songs and music and so much, much more. That's our Fatherland and that's what we have to struggle to get back."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"In mid-1944 Hitler, increasingly deluded and desperate, proclaimed Axis victory was imminent. "Very soon I shall use my triumphal weapons, and then the war will end gloriously . . . Then those gentlemen won't know what hit them. This is the weapon of the future, and with it Germany's future is likewise assured."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"In January, Hole sent a message, detailing recent attempts in Berlin to separate uranium isotopes with centrifuges. He also reported an outright statement by a German physicist involved in the program that his countrymen "intended to make uranium bombs." Tronstad shared none of these conflicting reports with Rønneberg and his team. Vemork was the single identifiable target open to them in their effort to stop the Germans from obtaining a bomb that could annihilate a city in a single strike."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Rønneberg was suddenly lifted up and back, as if a giant had grabbed the back of his jacket. Then he was flying, head over heels off the roof, tossed away by a gust of wind. He landed in a snowbank. When he staggered to his feet, the cabin had vanished. All was white, swirling white, around him. Heading into the wind that had knocked him away, he eventually found the cabin. Climbing onto the roof a second time, he managed to fix the chimney pot, only to be hit by another gust of wind that sent him flying into the snow."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Dressed for the minus-thirty-degree temperatures at high altitude (wool underwear, two pairs of wool socks, a wool sweater, a brown leather jacket lined with sheep's wool, and heavy trousers), Roane crossed the cold, fog-ridden airfield and gathered with the other pilots and aircrews in the huge Nissen hut used for briefings."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Soon he was assigned to fly the B-17. The four-engine, long-range bomber had an arsenal of machine guns and could take punch after punch and still deliver its bomb load—over ninety-six hundred pounds. Crewed by ten men, the B-17 was known as the Flying Fortress and was a giant in the sky."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"With an ever-increasing number of fast-moving neutrons flinging themselves about, splitting atoms at an exponential rate, scientists could create what was called a chain reaction—and generate enormous quantities of energy. Which prompted the obvious question: To what purpose?"
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Diebner called another meeting of his "Uranium Club." This time Werner Heisenberg attended. Heisenberg was considered the leading light of German theoretical physics, particularly after Hitler's rise had forced Albert Einstein and other Jewish physicists to flee the country"
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
"Beside the Columbia River in Washington State, construction had commenced on reactors that used two hundred tons of uranium moderated by twelve hundred tons of graphite. Working with their Canadian ally, the Americans were building a massive heavy water plant at a hydropower station in Trail, British Columbia. At the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, a small city of physicists was working to build a functioning fission bomb."
― The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
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