Ray Mears: Real Heroes of Telemark - Episode 3 of 3 (2 of 5)

In the bleak Norwegian midwinter of 1943, a group of resistance fighters manages to destroy machinery used by the Germans to make " heavy water", a key ingredient in building atomic bombs.

The exercise, labelled Operation Grouse, was one of the most audacious raids of World War II, carried out by four handpicked commandoes parachuted into German-occupied Norway.

Mears and a team of serving Royal Marines and Norwegian troops follow the gruelling campaign the men underwent 60 year later. He demonstrates their courage as they struggled with freezing conditions and minimal rations, to survive four months on the brutal Hardanger Plateau, site of the Norsk Hydro facility at Vemork.

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