Attack On The Vemork Essay

Knut Haukelid and the Gunnerside team had orders to destroy the Vemork heavy water power plant in which the first team failed to do and after that, to destroy the Hydro which was carrying barrels of heavy water.
Knut Haukelid and the Gunnerside team did the right thing in destroying the Vemork Heavy Water Plant and sinking the Hydro, because if they were not able to complete this task then the Germans could have completed their research in the atomic bomb and could have used it on the Allied Forces.
By choosing to aid and be a part of the Gunnerside team and launch the attack on the Vemork plant as well as sinking the Hydro, Knut Haukelid made the right decision, which shows their sense of Global/National responsibility.
But also by choosing to Sink the Hydor and attack the
Another of Knut Haukelid and the Gunnerside Team implicating a negative national responsibility is during the bombing of the Vemork power plant.
“Prepared for an air raid, German soldiers turned on smoke machines, which clouded the blue sky. The bombers released seven hundred bombs into the into the gorge on which the Vemork plant perched. The five hundred pound bombs exploded all over the gorge and the nearby town of Rjukan. One hit a bomb shelter killing sixteen Norwegians. Several landed around Vemork, with just two hitting the heavy water plant. The high concentration room . . . was unscathed.“ pg. 109
This shows that they were willing to sacrifice a loss of their nation's life to destroy the Heavy Water Plant, and yet 2 out of 700 bombs actually hit the target.
Even though they were able to potentially saving the world by halting the creation of the germans atomic bomb, the Norwegians in the Gunnerside team still owed a sense of duty to their home