First SEALs (42 page)

139
      
“
I jumped up . . . get closer
.” Author interview.

139
      
“
perfectly at home . . . very nice
.” Ibid.

139
      
“
Just remembering it . . . around us
.” Ibid.

139
      
“
Get your goddamn . . . of there
!” Ibid.

140
      
“
I held my . . . the charge
.” Ibid.

140
      
“
Boom
!” Ibid.

140
      
“
It was sickening . . . little bellies
.” Ibid.

140
      
“
This was a . . . your life
.” Ibid.

141
      
“
As we swam . . . cannon fire
.” Ibid.

141
      
“
When you get . . . back in
.” Ibid.

141
      
“
We had a . . . went by
.” Ibid.

142
      
“
Why didn't you . . . clandestine mean
?” Ibid.

142
      
“
We weren't there . . . the bushel
.” Ibid.

142
      
“
It ran pretty . . . underwater demolition
.” Ibid.

143
      
“
Where are the . . . Forces refined
.” Ibid.

143
      
“
Shooting wasn't our . . . their fires
.” Ibid.

144
      
“
If we were . . . a hook
.” Ibid.

144
      
“
several wires and old wreckage
.” Ibid.

145
      
“
expressed a desire . . . [OSS] again
.” “History of the Maritime Unit.”

145
      
“
expressed his appreciation and satisfaction
.” Ibid.

145
      
“
obtained hydrographic and . . . of chaungs
.” Ibid.

146
      
“
This area abounds . . . possibilities
.” Ibid.

146
      
“
a siege of . . . training course
.” Ibid.

146
      
“
Johnny . . . paddy [rice] farmer
.” “Methods of identifying members of the Caprice Party,” August 17, 1945, NARA.

147
      
“
You are not . . . my life
.” Author interview.

CHAPTER 18: THE DUPONT MISSION

152
      
“
I am an . . . help you
.” Persico,
Piercing the Reich
, 120.

154
      
“
refresher course
.” Taylor, résumé of activities, NARA.

CHAPTER 19: “I WAS PROMISED THIS MISSION, AND I WANT IT”

156
      
“
a flat cultivated . . . excellent cover
.” Jack Taylor, “Dupont Mission Report,” May 30, 1945, NARA.

158
      
“
I was promised . . . want it
.” Persico,
Piercing the Reich
, 125.

158
      
“
were in their . . . their integrity
.” Taylor, “Dupont Mission Report.”

158
      
“
could be depended . . . an emergency
.” Ibid.

158
      
“
entirely abnormal . . . four bodies
.” Ibid.

159
      
“
I pulled down . . . front yard
.” Ibid.

159
      
“
To our amazement . . . previous run
.” Ibid.

159
      
“
To our utter . . . an investigation
.” Ibid.

159
      
“
I stepped in . . . containers
.” Ibid.

160
      
“
a medium-sized marsh . . . sleeping bag
.” Ibid.

160
      
“
continued past Nougledel . . . Leithe Geb
.” Ibid.

161
      
“
As it was . . . the hayloft
.” Ibid.

161
      
“
Buchleitner and family . . . by others
.” Ibid.

162
      
“
a locomotive factory . . . January [1945]
.” Ibid.

162
      
“
housed several hundred . . . ever seen
.” Ibid.

162
      
“
two trains of . . . human beings
.” Ibid.

162
      
“
was being widened . . . themselves working
.” Ibid.

163
      
“
Political information showed . . . (people's army)
.” Ibid.

164
      
“
would go to . . . as machinery
.” Ibid.

164
      
Living up to . . . his girlfriend
. “The Overseas Target,”
OSS History Vol II
, 318.

165
      
“
Suddenly, the door . . . his head
.” Taylor, “Dupont Mission Report.”

CHAPTER 20: VIENNA CAPTIVITY

169
      
Quotes in this chapter come from Jack Taylor, “Dupont Mission Report Part II: Capture, Gestapo and
Vienna Prison
.”

CHAPTER 21:
DECIMA MAS
STRIKES BACK

175
      
Unless otherwise specified, quotes in this chapter come from Staff Officer (Intelligence) Leghorn, “Unsuccessful
Limpeteer
Attack on Leghorn. 18th–19th November, 1944,” Report, November 25, 1944, NARA.

178
      
“
Explorer Theodore . . . without saying
.” Theodore Morde, “In the Lost City of Ancient America's Monkey God,”
Milwaukee Sentinel
, September 22, 1940, 28–29,
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19400922&id=yjBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Nw0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6930,4275460
.

179
      
“
Frankly I am . . . this war
.” Morde to Lichtman, letter, January 22, 1945, NARA.

179
      
“
Mines go off . . . the harbor
.” Ibid.

179
      
“
ten Lambertsen Diving . . . each unit
.” Lt. G. M. Kaydouh, USNR to Col. Edward J. G. Glavin, letter, October 4, 1944, NARA.

180
      
“
boatman . . . chests
.” Lupo Team Report, NARA.

180
      
“
[One agent] lost . . . genital organs
.” Ibid.

CHAPTER 22: THE EIGHTH ARMY DETACHMENT

183
      
“
Captain Thiele personally . . . serious damage
.” Captain Thiele's Citation for Legion of Merit, NARA.

184
      
“
flair for handling . . . and airplanes
.” Ibid.

184
      
Walkiria Terradura, a . . . years to come
. “Walkiria's War: The True Story of Walkiria Terradura,”
www.walkiriaswar.com/story4.html
.

185
      
“
unusually frank and . . . highly reliable
” Monteleone Personnel File, NARA.

186
      
“
The San Marco . . . be trained
.” Author interview and
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
, 132.

186
      
“
The men would . . . Corsini Canal
.” Robert Young, “The OSS's Eighth Army Detachment in Italy: A Few Men and Their Radio,”
The OSS Society Journal
, Summer/Fall 2010.

187
      
“
We landed the . . . German voices
.” Author interview.

187
      
“
As soon as . . . German battery
.” Bionda Mission Report, Bionda Radio File, and reports related to the operation, NARA.

187
      
“
We didn't hear . . . got captured
.” Author interview.

188
      
“
Since the last . . . the region
.” Bionda Mission Report; author interview.

188
      
“
scarce in clothing . . . 12 October
.” Bionda Mission Report.

188
      
“
I immediately reached . . . an explosion
.” Ibid.

188
      
“
During the time . . . excellent work
.” Ibid.

189
      
“
the best piece . . . of Italy
.” Alphonse Thiele,
History of the Eighth Army Detachment
, 1945, NARA.

190
      
“
One cannot overstress . . . one's disposal
.” Ibid.

190
      
“
This was the . . . returned safely
.” Ibid.

190
      
“
In all, fifteen . . . on shore
.” Ibid.

190
      
“
be incorporated into . . . Ops Officer
.”
War Report of the OSS,
Vol II, 102.

190
      
“
It is gratifying . . . their own
.” Thiele,
History of the Eighth Army Detachment.

CHAPTER 23: STELLA

Quotes in this chapter come from the Stella Mission Report, NARA.

CHAPTER 24: INDIANA JONES

195
      
“
This coast is . . . ten men
.” Morde to Lee, letter, January 1945, NARA.

195
      
“
showed an appreciation
.” Thiele,
History of the Eighth Army Detachment
;
War Report of the OSS
, Vol. II, 102.

195
      
“
inland, supplying the . . . red cabbages
.” Morde to Lichtman, letter, January 22, 1945, NARA; also “Full Report on Destruction of P-584,” NARA.

198
      
“
For three and . . . said so
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 330.

199
      
“
I don't mean . . . the war
.” Ibid., 229.

CHAPTER 25: SURVIVING

Quotes in this chapter come from the Dupont Mission Report.

CHAPTER 26: MAUTHAUSEN

Quotes in this chapter come from the Dupont Mission Report.

CHAPTER 27: LAST ACTS

215
      
To lay the foundation . . . partisan resistance
.
War Report of the OSS
, 115.

215
      
“
impossible . . . transport organizations
.” Thiele,
History of the Eighth Army Detachment
; other reports on the Eighth Army Detachment and Company D, NARA.

215
      
“
Activity of partisan . . . this development
.” Kesselring to subordinates, telegram, February 26, 1945, in
War Report of the OSS
, Vol. II, 114.

216
      
“
resulted in the . . . firing a shot
.” Hearn's Citation for Bronze Star Medal, NARA.

217
      
“
[MU will] move . . . this material
.” Kelly, “Operational Report, Company D 1–15 March, 1945,” March 18, 1945, NARA.

CHAPTER 28: GOD BLESS AMERICA

219
      
“
I was so . . . without fainting
.” Taylor, Dupont Mission Report.

219
      
“
Terribly optimistic rumors . . . eventually died
.” Ibid.

220–221
      
“
started the evacuation . . . and sugar
.” Ibid.

221
      
Unbeknownst to Taylor . . . the camps
. Ibid.

221
      
The rest of . . . April 28
. Transcripts of Mauthausen-Gusen Camp Trials, NARA.

222
      
“
American P-38s came . . . coming fast
.” Taylor, Dupont Mission Report.

222
      
“
stressed the fact . . . liberation
.” Former Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek, “Liberation of Mauthausen (and KZ Gusen I, II & III),” THUNDERBOLT—The 11th Ard. Div. Association, Vol. 8, No. 7, May–June 1955,
webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/gusen/kosiek1x.htm
.