Unable to find the bridge by nightfall, he met up with Houghton and Sergeant Erling Djupdraet and the three returned to the resort where a scuffle broke out between the group and some Germans who had come to question the owners.

Erling Djupdraet died on 24 September at the hospital in Bodø and of the rest, only Lance Sergeant Richard O'Brien and Private John Fairclough, survived the war.

The distance from Bjærangfjord to Sweden walked on foot by Granlund was 250 kilometres (160 mi) and took him over seven days, with practically no food and only wearing his uniform.

He died at sea on 10 February 1943 in transit to Norway, when the Norwegian submarine HNoMS Uredd hit a German minefield southwest of Fugløyvær, carrying his team as part of Operation Seagull.

[1][6] In 1995, the Norwegian artist Laila Lorentzen commemorated his role in the war with a bust constructed for Saltdal Museum in Rognan.