Daring Missions of World War II

Daring Missions of World War II......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
Part One—Darkness Falls over Europe......Page 16
Post Office Shoot-Out Launches a War......Page 18
Wiping Out Hitler’s Spy Network......Page 20
The Gestapo Cracks an Espionage Ring......Page 22
Masquerading Germans Pace the Invasion......Page 23
A Streetcar Spearheads an Attack......Page 26
Hitler Order: Kidnap Queen Wilhelmina......Page 27
A Legal Diamond Thief......Page 28
Rommel Personally Captures a Unit......Page 29
A General’s “Impossible” Escape......Page 30
“The Cat” Was a Triple Agent......Page 33
Prowling behind German-Held Coast......Page 35
Cat-and-Mouse Game......Page 37
A Personal Telegram for the Führer......Page 40
Who Was the Mysterious Max?......Page 41
Underwater War at Gibraltar......Page 42
Polish Spies Invade Germany......Page 46
A Leg is Parachuted to a British Ace......Page 49
Sudden Death for the “Blond Beast”......Page 51
Parachuting in a Boat......Page 54
Part Two—Freedom’s Time of Crisis......Page 56
A Ruse to Spy on Cherbourg......Page 58
“Hunting” Germans in Canoes......Page 59
Jewish Raiders in Disguise......Page 60
A Conspiracy to Capture Cairo......Page 64
Intruders at a Secret Airport......Page 65
A Special Medal for Burma Tribesmen......Page 69
American Medics Save Ho Chi Minh......Page 72
A Hoax at Soviet Oil Fields......Page 73
A Woman Heads an Escape Apparatus......Page 75
The Countess and the Commandos......Page 79
”Blow Up Rommel’s Railroad!”......Page 84
Reconnoitering Hostile Beaches......Page 89
A Master of Disguises......Page 91
Deceiving an Italian General......Page 92
The Canal Saboteurs......Page 93
Strange Places for Secret Radios......Page 94
Saved from a Firing Squad......Page 95
Part Three—Hitler’s Empire under Siege......Page 98
Old Popski Invades a German Headquarters......Page 100
The GI with the Too-Short Pants......Page 103
The New York Subway Connection......Page 107
Nose-Thumbing at the Germans......Page 109
The Chef Had Bombs on His Menu......Page 110
Spying from a Church Steeple......Page 111
The Black-Hearted Devils......Page 112
A New Baby Stymies Normandy Planning......Page 116
Sabotage Campaign by Railway Men......Page 118
A Close Encounter with Two Jungle Beasts......Page 119
A Millionairess Resistance Leader......Page 122
A Woman OSS Agent and “Cuthbert”......Page 124
Panzer Watchers and Phony Laundries......Page 125
The Supersecret X Troop......Page 127
A Luftwaffe Pilot Declines to Take Bait......Page 128
Jealousy Thwarts a German Scheme......Page 129
A British POW Saves His Captor’s Life......Page 130
Part Four—Beginning of the End......Page 132
“Hell, We’re Halfway to Berlin!”......Page 134
Alone in a German-Held Town......Page 136
Two Admirals Go Souvenir Hunting......Page 138
An American General’s Strange Odyssey......Page 141
Mission: Kidnap Field Marshal Rommel......Page 144
A Soviet Spying Mission Fizzles......Page 146
A “Dead” GI Returns......Page 147
Operation Sauerkraut......Page 150
A POW Haul in a Saloon......Page 152
“The Madman of St. Malo”......Page 153
The “Terrorist” Was a Lady......Page 155
Jeds behind the French Riviera......Page 156
The Mysterious Lady in Red......Page 159
An Escape by Eight “Policemen”......Page 162
An Endangered Pilot Is Saved......Page 165
Shooting Up an “Iron Kraut”......Page 168
Hiding a “Pregnant” Glider Pilot......Page 169
The “Lone Raider” on the Prowl......Page 171
A Secret Mission in the Alps......Page 175
Part Five—Peace at Last......Page 178
Curious Doings in a POW Camp......Page 180
POWs Parachute into the Reich......Page 182
The Good Samaritan of Leyte Gulf......Page 184
“Scarface Otto” Creates Mass Hysteria......Page 185
A POW Colonel Takes Command......Page 189
An Allied Spy’s Dilemma......Page 192
Marooned amid the Foe......Page 193
Trapped in an Attic for Eight Days......Page 196
Love and War at a German Post Office......Page 200
MacArthur “Visits” a Japanese CP......Page 201
A Patrol’s “Pigeon Air Force”......Page 203
A German Boy-Soldier Saves Two GIs......Page 207
A Scheme to Trigger an Uprising......Page 210
Uninvited “Guests” on Corregidor......Page 211
Eavesdropping behind Japanese Positions......Page 213
Eisenhower’s Spy in Berlin......Page 214
Father Sam and His Hidden Radio......Page 217
Intelligence Coup on a Train......Page 219
Nazi Frogmen on the Rhine......Page 221
VIP Hostages Saved by Fate......Page 223
A Stroll through 145,000 Germans......Page 224
Mobilizing Twenty-Eight Million Civilian Killers......Page 227
Notes and Sources......Page 232
Index......Page 244