Mitch Utterback

@drakenhh Waquoit Bay on the south side of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Vinland.

"The horizon is not a destination, but an invitation to keep moving" 🌍 Where do you think we should sail next? #DrakenHaraldHårfagre #VikingShip #LivingHistory #odyssey #theodysseyship

@SOE_Expeditions @VoicesofWW2 @WW2Facts @USASOCNews @SOAAorg @AFSpecOpsCmd @US_SOCEUR @SOEhistory @outpostgray @keela_tactical @SpecOpsMedics Spell check

@NorwayUS My sincere pleasure to honor the service and sacrifice of those brave Norwegians with you last Friday. Tusen takk for the hospitality, and I look forward to another visit in the future. Alt for Norge!🇳🇴

Thanks to Lt. Col. @MitchUtterback for giving us a presentation on the 82nd anniversary of the pivotal Norwegian WWII sabotage mission that destroyed Nazi attempts to create an atomic bomb – Operation Gunnerside.

spymuseum.org/calendar/the-h… Hope to see you there troops!

@OliverLNorth Our sincerest condolences my friend.

@OliverLNorth Happy Thanksgiving from the 2007 tribe teammate!

On Thanksgiving Day we will gather our growing tribe and a good number of neighbors and friends. We will thank our Lord and Savior for the young Americans serving in harm’s way on land, sea and in the air and ask for their protection. Hopefully, our countrymen will do so as well.

@DrHelenFry All of these (again), in preparation for our @SOE_Expeditions 80th anniversary commemoration of Operation RYPE in March '25 in 🇳🇴

What WW2 book are you currently reading?

Standing room only last night in East Grand Forks, MN.

Currently traveling the USA, telling the story of one of the most audacious and successful missions of World War II - the Heavy Water Sabotage Raid in Vemork, Norway. Conducted by "The Heroes of Telemark." Alt for Norge🇳🇴

@Lonely75567 On our way to Basra in March 2008. Charge of the Knights.🇮🇶

ISOF Major General Fadhil Barwari posing with an Iraqi Abrams Tank in Ramadi, 2014. #iraq #isof #ISOF #ICTS #Iraq #Abrams #War #MiddleEastConflict

@ric_cole @OspreyBooks 80th anniversary expedition coming next year with @ExpeditionsSoe

@ric_cole Hasler and Sparks' legacy right there.

@Vanguard_WW2 Did a solo tribute to those heroes on the 80th anniversary of the mission last year in 🇺🇸. Insofar as I know, the only North American tribute to Op Frankton, paddling and then hiking the same operational distances as Hasler and Sparks. (Looking for a place to publish my article)

🇬🇧 At around this time on 7 December 1942 - Five 'Cockle' kayaks manned by Royal Marines begin to make their way up the Gironde estuary after launching from a submarine. Their target is German shipping in the port areas of Bordeaux. After five nights of paddling up the wide estuary, only two kayaks remained and began attaching their limpet mines to vessels in the port. Six ships were attacked, with one sinking and the other severely damaged. Only two of the ten Royal Marines would survive. Six were caught and executed by the Germans under the infamous commando order and the other two succumbed the hypothermia.

In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The merchant of death is dead," in a French newspaper. It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered, inspiring him to change his will. On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 63. Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, with the last one composed over a year before he died, specifying that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million SEK (approximately US$186 million or €150 million in 2008), to establish the five Nobel Prizes. Owing to skepticism surrounding the will, it was not approved by the Storting in Norway until 26 April 1897. The executors of the will, Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of the fortune and organize the awarding of prizes.

@ExpeditionsSoe @authordlewis @SOEhistory @theRMcharity @AFF_Team @SOFWarriorFnd @1st_SF_Command @keela_tactical @ExpeditionFoods @SFCharitable @SOF_UKR You may want to bring a 🇺🇸 Special Forces veteran along, who knows a thing or two about the OSS special operations branch, Norwegian resistance in WWII, is trained in winter warfare, forstår litt norsk, and is reviewing Frode's book!🇳🇴 If only you could find such a person...!

@AndreasMannerf1 No, those are my nomex gloves drying out. I would never waste an MRE!

@MitchUtterback And melted MER:s to your left!?😂👍

Kaffe hemma med favoritkoppen!💪🏻👍

@SOEhistory Please switch Birger S. and Knute H. names - they are incorrectly under each other's photos. @authordlewis @ExpeditionsSoe @SOE_Spirit @nealbascomb

🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 𝗙𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟭𝟲, 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟯: An RAF Halifax left England with six SOE commandos who parachuted into German-occupied Norway as part of an operation to destroy the heavy water production plant in Telemark. #OperationGunnerside #SOE #WW2 1/3

@authordlewis @lalaburrow @stephenkb Still photo from the upcoming documentary by @scoticafilm about our 80th anniversary commemoration of the heavy water sabotage.🇳🇴

Cheers @lalaburrow 'They did nothing less than save the world.' @stephenkb

@authordlewis @lalaburrow @stephenkb Love that photo!