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Offline GScholz

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70 Years after...
« on: February 26, 2013, 07:13:21 AM »
... commandos from Company Linge attacked the heavy water factory at Vmork, Norwegian paratroopers repeat the epic journey.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152595942475198&set=vb.157087024348788&type=2&theater

Jumping over the frigid terrain and skiing with all their gear more than 300 miles.
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2013, 08:30:24 AM »
Fin video. Tapre soldater å hoppe ut av et gode fly.  :D

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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2013, 08:36:49 AM »
That was actually intelligible! Translators are getting better. ;)
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2013, 08:42:02 AM »
  Yeah without Google I would be helpless.  :lol
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2013, 09:17:43 AM »
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2013, 09:28:42 AM »
Yeah, what an insanely heroic country that kept on fighting three years after they reportedly surrendered...  :cheers:
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2013, 09:30:29 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on February 26, 2013, 09:28:42 AM
Yeah, what an insanely heroic country that kept on fighting three years after they reportedly surrendered...  :cheers:
Got to give them credit for that.  :rock
The French too.
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2013, 09:31:28 AM »
Maybe they just didn't get the memo?
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2013, 02:14:13 PM »
Those Nordics have always been odd :)

I have just read "The Kon-Tiki Expedition" by Thor Heyerdahl :)

fantastic :old:
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2013, 04:24:48 PM »
Have you seen the movie? It's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnmjQJHRP4

Was even nominated for an Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards.
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Re: 70 Years after...
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2013, 07:25:57 PM »
Lol. I remember reading a British article on how genetic research proved Heyerdahl partially right, and the author called the Kon-Tiki expedition something like "the most epic journey ever undertaken just to prove a point".
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