Knut haukelid autobiography for kids

From distant cousins of war hero Knut Haukelid and his twin sister, Hollywood actress Sigrid Gurie, comes the following information on Haukelid.

He was the leader of a sabotage team of Norwegians who first snuck into the German Heavy Water Plant at Rjukan and blew it up thus setting back German endeavours to produce a product vital to the development of an atomic bomb.

Then, when the Germans decided to ship the heavy water back to Germany in barrels, Knut and his team snuck aboard the ferry which had to haul it across a lake, set a time-bomb on board the ferry timed to blow up at the exact time when the ferry was in the middle of the lake.

The plot worked perfectly with the entire German cache of heavy water sinking to the bottom of the lake.

His singular action gave the United States the time to complete their own atomic bomb. Hollywood made a movie of it starring Kirk Douglas entitled, "The Heroes of Telemark." He