Transfer to the Norwegian Army

I was transferred to the Norwegian Army almost immediately after landing in Britain in the very early days of 1944. The reason I was attached to the Norwegian Army is that I had, always had a strong interest in Scandinavia and Scandinavian countries and so they could see that from what I had been doing and working at and so on and so forth. Well I was primarily involved with the heavy water plant in Norway. It was built in the mountains northwest of Oslo. I was attached to the Norwegian Army during the first half of 1944 and my primary, I was primarily involved with the German heavy water plant, in other words that was one of their main, main goals in Norway, getting the heavy water plant and developing it. That’s all their research work was based on, on that cooling system, ahead of their research work in, on a nuclear side, of scouting the Norwegian heavy water plant work and it was almost impossible to bomb it out. Every effort had been made in that direction of business, it was such a solid rock, mountain. And it was just one of many, so that aircraft could not fly in low and attack it from the sides you might say. It had to be strictly from above. And that was very, very difficult because of the nature of the country, and the mountain. And that particular plant, it was built well into the base of the mountain and you could never be certain as to how effective bombings were.