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A Norwegian commando who was a member of the Operation Gunnerside, which destroyed the Nazi's heavy water plant, died last week.
Claus Helberg, a Norwegian resistance fighter and member of a commando team that destroyed Germany's atomic weapons program in a daring World War II raid, has died. He was 84.
Helberg died March 6 of a heart attack.
Lewis Mantus, a British writer who helped publicize the 60th anniversary of the raid, held Feb. 28, said Helberg, along with the other eight, "probably saved the world and we should be thankful for what they did."
Born near Rjukan, 90 miles west of Oslo, Helberg was an avid outdoorsman and guide, leading citizens and Scandinavian royal families through the country's mountain trails.
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