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Radio 4,17 Nov 2012,15 mins

17/11/2012

iPM

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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.

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