article_snippet: The Telemark saboteurs back in Britain after the incredible raid.
article_snippet: The Telemark Battalion share a name with a group of legendary Second World War saboteurs.
article_snippet: The Heroes of Telemark (pictured), carried out a famous raid which helped thwart Hitler's plans to build a Nazi nuclear bomb.
article_snippet: The raid, which is regarded as one of the most successful acts of sabotage in the whole war, was also remarkable for the fact The team managed to escape by cross-country skiing 250 miles into Sweden.
article_snippet: But the six-man all Norwegian squad from the Special Operations Executive, trained at Brickendonbury in Hertfordshire, managed to parachute in and get the job done.
article_snippet: They then made They remarkable escape, imortalised in the 1964 Hollywood film The Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas.