17/11/2012

Operation Freshman was a daring World War II raid on a facility in Norway that was the key to Hitler's atomic bomb programme. Hear about how it went tragically wrong.

This week iPM marks the seventieth anniversary of Operation Freshman,
a raid on a facility in Norway, that was crucial to the development of
the Nazi's atomic bomb programme during the Second World War.

Hear how it went tragically wrong and about the way the operation has been
largely forgotten, despite the heroism.