While overall the series fits everything I know about the operations, the weapons depicted don't seem quite right.
Although run by British SOE the Norwegian commandos who reach the basement are exclusively carrying Thompson submachine guns and Colt 1911 45's. I would have thought Sten guns and some funky British revolver type would have been more likely.
it's a stupid and annoying mistake, and I would guess that there are more coming.
norway is a hunting/shooting country, you would think there would be someone there could have advised them on basic Ww2 firearms by country..
British infantry were often equipped with .45 thompson in latter years of war...but never commando/red devils/paratroops type troops..
FFs, there are 11YO kids out there who make plastic model kits and soldiers or have read fking "Commando" comics who could have told them that..
the odd-thing is , STEN guns are shown when they are training in England, their bro shoots himself accidentally with a Sten gun..
too many clueless liberal college arts types go making movies and relying on their own advice..
Actually they did use both the Colt .45 and Thompson's.
First of all the Kongsberg Colt was the standard issue sidearm for Norwegian forces before the war, so several of the saboteurs were familiar with the gun. Also due to shortages, the SOE often had to rely on foreign weapons.
The Thompson was used because, unlike the Sten gun, it was rarely used by resistance fighters, and the saboteurs wanted to avoid German reprisals against Norwegian civilians after the attack, and so by leaving behind one of the Thompson's they sent a message to the Germans that this was done by British troops, not Norwegians.