Haukelid, Knut

Haukelid, Knut. 1954. Skis Against the Atom. William Kimber. 

So Knut Haukelid laid his plans. He put on workman s clothes, packed his Sten gun into a violin case, identified which ferry would make the run on Sunday, February 20, 1944, the appointed day, and rode it with one eye on his watch. The Hydro was fiat and bargelike with twin smokestacks jutting up side by side through its boxy superstructure. It reached the deepest part of the lake about thirty minutes after sailing and took twenty minutes then to cross to shallower waters. We had therefore a margin of... 

Once again Norwegian commando Knut Haukelid was called on to destroy the heavy water. Haukelid conceived a plan to blow up a ferry carrying the barrels as the boat crossed Lake Tinnsji in Norway. Haukelid was able to plant explosives on the ferry. On February 20, 1944, as the ferry reached the middle of the lake, a timer activated the explosives, blowing a hole in the hull. 

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