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Retrieving the crashed glider of Telemark
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

For many people outside Norway (where the name means a region of the country west of Oslo), 'Telemark' is best known for the heroic wartime sabotage mission to destroy the Nazi atomic research facility at Vemork.
The British skiing troops who carried out that mission in 1942 were delayed for 3 months by the crashes of two gliders which killed 30 aboard (10 others were later executed by the Nazis). The delay caused a fight for survival, but ultimate success.
One of the gliders was never found, but last month - 62 years after the event - a Norwegian military historian discovered its remains on a mountain and an RAF team will go to the site in September to salvage worthwhile material.
Interestingly, this article from The Scotsman suggests that the glider's remains have been buried in snow all that time, which is intereresting. Is there really permanent snow that far south in Norway, or was it merely that the glider was found under snow because it was winter at the time?
Anyone?
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

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The British skiing troops who carried out that mission in 1942 were delayed for 3 months


The mission was accomplished by Norwegians, wasn't it? The British contingent all dies in the glider crashes. That's from memory of the "Real Heroes Of Telemark" and I'll admit that my memory is often flawed. Confused
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

skanky, you're quite right. Thanks for correcting me.This site gives a uesful explanation of the heavy water plant involved, and the various missions to destroy it.
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