Real Heroes of Telemark

Ray Mears parachutes into Norway

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[flintlight4]

Ray Mears' BBC documentary series on the Heroes of Telemark was a most fitting tribute to the greatly brave and physically tough Norwegian sabotage teams that executed the Telemark raids in 1942/43. Even during World War II when bravery was the norm and heroism was not uncommon on either side, the Norwegian teams that raided Norsk Hydro's Vermork heavy-water plant and their associated operations at Telemark stand out as quite remarkable and most extraordinary men.

[diamonddiver]

These men where hard as nails, kids today don't know how easy they have it.

[MrUrdal]

superb operation military , thanks to england to have help norway in 2ww

[seawolf1451]

Thanks for that.

You can be proud of your rangers too,they are rated among the best.

[jayti83]

they did on the streets, on villages and in forests ofc, but not on the mountians.. cant u see what im trying to say here? read what ive said.. im not saying we were any better than them, just that we won battles on mountinas, and we defeated the first wave of fallschirmjäger that went down.. and we won the battle at elverum trying to defend the kings escape. im not saying we kicked their asses during ww2, im just telling about their deafets, and especially in the mountians where we had adv.

[basetarded]

all battles in Norway was won by thr allies. Norwegians didnt win anything because we didnt have an army, and the silly government refused to raise an army when we were attacked. In fact, people who voluntered at the nearly abandoned army camps were told to go home.

[basetarded]

You're wrong. The Germans kicked our asses in 99% of the times.

[jayti83]

they went to the streets, since we had advantage in the mountians

[jayti83]

btw im not saying that we were strong and invincible back then! we got occupied after 3 months nonetheless, but im just saying that ur statement about the "BEST FUCKING LANDSCAPE TO DEFEND, LONG ARTIC MOUNTANS WHICH ONLY NORWEGIANS KNEW THE WAY " sounded a little wrong.. its true, but they didnt occupie our contry in the mountians if u see what i mean? =p

[jayti83]

ye most sea and air battles in norway was won by the british yes. i cant say what they did on land, cus i dont know. our resistance was light though so we did what we could. we still won major norwegian battles without british help u know. our resistance were most sabotage missions where we blow up loads of loads with german war ships(ask and ill tell). i didnt understand what u meant with "scandinavian brother stand together".. so explain it plz =)

[DutchPetriot]

most battles in the defence of norway where won by the british... ow and correct me if you think its wrong :), germans have always been good at close quatre combat. im still asking my self why the scandanavians joined finland instad of some men with guts voluntering. that why i dont think you can say that ''scandanavian brothers stand together'' we dutch also helped belgium in the first world war ( 10 million taking care of 1 million refugees while the economie sucked ass because of the war )