1955-03-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL”, SATURDAY, MARCH 19,' `1955.

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HOW HITLER TRIED TO FIND OUR SECRET BASE

"D

ESTROY at all

Costa many's

Ger- seerei

radar device at

Bruneval. France!" That top priority order started off one of the finest ecups of World War Two.

It hul all started when 1 ho

Under- Continental

ground signalled London that the enemy were accurately lofting our course when we were carrying spies and supplies.

The RAF were determined la keep

The activities of the Squndzon sebel We were Be vital link in the espionage elain That Britain hil forged through- out Geeupied Europe.

were

Commajicko patatroops Planet to dedry the merel zadm “tation They wore harul- picked

ruthlessnes In the

and lighting effeney Many of Theta kom i windlet b "one- u come wilde trip only

wuy

#the

on this thrilling adventure

The French cont slid pust. Jutched thete

The porabimopr

tommy gure lighter, and for the Cchtekel their

They would!

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Hear

Junip

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22

27-

"Go The Dispatcher's shunt! In the wind howling through the gaping hotels,

Vasbed Comande

atibus! groundwards zuidnight Fetusary 27 1942 the

Quickly, y med Found sliected thin explosive contacts, an het off at a furt hot Brading them was a mem- ber of Die local Hesiskutier

EAN

Ahead.

"They Jack

Suddenly.

AMBUSH

houses loured

the gel

followed by e

attiry

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yards awaN

up

ifruneval lived for

others

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a Tew

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The trick worked ....

stripped, one of the German "airmen" had over £3,000

stropped to his body.

A sudden burst of gunfre broke the spell The afficers hot

gged to the Hoor.

Quickly. the paratroope13 photographed! The radar equip- It lo a ment before smushing meaningless shambles,

Then, as suddenly as they had they vanished from the rome, town. Before the dazed Gezinats the party could counter-attack,

For some reason he started to the surrounding country-

site.

had they seen an aircraft flying from the base when none had taken ? Why didn't they leil the truth?

But the closest we can »

their The two spies bluffed discovery was on it gold night

way ptat of these questions. in January 1943 A Junkers 88

the unterrogator fried speaked across the Farm Const, Next

They

barked swiden Inged the low Fenlands a trickery.

Tew questions at them in German, dropped the two spros

The agents looked baffled. mtles from Tempsford.

were absurd Royal Navy ships CAUGHT and speeding for Dover

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wanted

The Cloak

Dukker Squadron were safe ve more for me at least, 111 Haler desperately. al an

Time and again he be- dayed his Chiefs of Staff Cause they were unable to un- varth our secret airfield.

I heard was cockert angle. as if he were listening intently 11 ribe was raises waist-high.

the Then, The stem still Command wormed towards the drawing 1411 guard. He leapt, ugly dugger from a sheath. His left arm swung in an are about the Nazi's throat and a startled shout ended in a choked grouh.

destroy 115.

So, one night a soiltary air-

baz matt droned towards our

B forishte z. Tempsford,

aircraft were

But none of our #ying that night!

The black-fuend Comunankos DESERTED

Bouked in the town,

kryes

In

The airbeld appeared desertsi from the air. Within seconds. Hores of guns were traine: ou the approaching plane.

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Both were wenging RAF unt- form. Both tended for the atr field. They bluffed their way past the perimeler guards with the story that they had bera on their way to a bomber base in Lincolnshire, tut hnd run out of petrol.

Having seen an aircraft take off, they hart assumed that there was an airfeld near by where they could stop the night.

in

Then the Intelligence offers struck ID conversation

$1 German. The gist of it was they were sure the twu ints were spks, and that they should be shut in the morning.

The trick worked. One of the men started to twitch uneasily.

Weather, conditions stopped me from dropping him the first time. But two days later, he and a collengue dropped over France.

Later, Yeo-Thomas returned to England and demanded more support for the Resistance. But red tape bogged him down.

Angry, he took an unheard of step. He insisted on an inter- view with Prime Minister Win- ston Churchil

He got it!

For fifty minutes he argued with Churchill 011 that cold afternom of February I, 1944.

It was one of the most event- ful interviews of the whole war, and ended with Churchili pro- mising Yco-Thomus a hundred more alteraft and all the land support possible.

of

the red

By bearding the top man the land in his own den, amazing spy had stashed tape and struck a resounding

blow for the Muquis.

He had also overnight doubles our work at Tempsford. But no- body minded that.

Soon.

part of Europe was sale from us, nud we dropped agents in Poland and Czecho slovakia, It was almost frin hours flying to these cruntea Because of the furt load, each aircraft carried only 21 few rends of mucualtion.

There was no chance of miss ing the dropping points in Po- land. Their Underground any had captured German Barely- lights to guide us in!

THE COUPLE

Most spies showed no emotion its we flew them to their de tinations. But once in a while they told heart-touching stories. There was the night I look at young hashant and wife across in the outskirts of Parks in the Spring of 1943. Early in the war they had escaped from France. leaving their two young children behind.

this for

Like so many others, couple had

volunteered espionage, and were now

They sat their first mission.

hold Halifax's waisi, in the Ing hunds like lovers. They were both going together, la the heps that a married couple would nul

suspicions

The

prouse watchful Gestapo.

It was only a short step when she from ther to a Hring squad.

of the

Quickly, the Intelligence men pouneed. They stripped the two

Like married people the world men of their clothes. Strapped

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of their me over, they "airman" family. to the body of un'

There was

it wistful was over £3,000. The gaine was

Jonding in the woman's voice 11.

told me that their chuterin were staying with their grandmother just outside Paris. But they had strict orders noi to go near uny of their relatives. Personal

not emotions must interfere with espionage.

thundering With the aircraft through flak, the mother told me their

for her children plans when the war ended.

Once more titler

Their papers were in order.

had been They both had northern Levenis, They used the right mixture of thwarted in his bid to uncover Service Jargon to express their the Cloak and Dagger Squadron, plight.

Dagger RED TAPE

But no Cloak and pilot had flown that night,

at the ready Racing up a side street, they heard a paleo) ap- proaching and took cover.

retin Germanis The marched into the ambush

Perhaps the biggest single At the guard

the room, seconds they lay dend on the

It was a German one! and the Curati fos

plausible agents repeated their thorn in the enemy's side was provement,

Yeo- F. Wing-Commander But they were over- then story. Slowly, it circled-and

called move swiftly past the shuttered

The Germans The night duty officer Thomas, nently dropped a line of Bares enger. Quickly, they surrounded the down the mian runway. The thought it odd that two airmen him the White Rabbit, and he was as elusive. I couldn't help bc isking skilfully- Tadar station Two more muffled

avrostromne had been discovered, should

he seemed incredibly about

thinking the Screams, and two more guards Hut the whispered order: "Don't phrased questions

young for the daring and ex- were hulfett. In less than ve fire" restrained the anxious work of the airteld.

acting task of reorganising the minutes the outer defences of

French Maquis. the secret radi station been penetrated.

gunners.

had

be

By now we were circling the dropping zone. This time no re

was to be committee cepilon wulting, so as to minimise the risk of delection,

Both agents embraced before they jumped. The scene brought The u hump to

my throat.

Just be woman jumped first, Intelligence officers were

fore the man followed, tre told A miss and we would have called in. Politely, they heard

were brilliant me the tragedy of their life. The Maquis Then the real the spies out, given the game way!

who

A few days earlier, he had For

the aircraft questioning started. Hour after fighters-men and women minutes

children had that his German heard with played havoc circled overhead, trying to de- hour they grilled the two men.

morale. But they fought in died in an RAF bombing miss- the airfield was

held elde whether

ion. But his voice Why isolated groups. Yeo-Thomas was But the flares were Where was their car?

train to their new airfeldt How Underground army.

Music and laughter could heard coming from a side room of the big house. The paratroop. ers kicked the door open, and six Nazi ficers sprang to their derellet. feet, unable to believe their dying, and their long shadows hadn't they been sent by troop to link them into

eyes.

must have fooled the pilot.

By LESLIE MONTGOMERY-

as told to Gordon Thomas

"Does your wife know?" The words were out before I could think

He shook his head, and siniled sadly. "There are some things you do not tell a woman."

Then he jumped.

agents I wasn't only tough that were spirited out of Ger- the man Occupied Europe by

and Dagger Squadron, Cloak Often wo whisked mothers und chlidren away from the devilish clutches of the Gestapo.

A CHANGE

One night we rescued an ex- started pectant mother! It af when Temspford received a top priority message that the wife of an executed Ferneti Patrio must be brought to Britain once. Her husband's dying whi was that she should have 11:1 baby in England,

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A bright moon heralded this merry mission. It was a good

omen for the Lysander's pilot, who reached the French const without incident.

Dukk

he

Skirting round the starled searching for the eld where the mother-to-be

It was full walling.

Was of hay-

moments weaving past them. Hidden in this hay lay

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stacks, andh he had anxious Drink it by itself served cold with a slice of Lemon- that's how they enjoy it in France; or have a Gin and St. Raphael.

NOW IN HONG KONG Sole Agents

mother

patriots ready 10 defend with their lives the young

child. and the unborn

For once, the Lysander stop- completely. while the nother was gently helpet

with board. Then,

a defent rour, the aircraft bounced into the air. 13t

Was short

The Flat

lime baby was due that night, out. the aircraft roared back to Tempsford. An ambulance was writing on the runway,

Before the Lysander's engine had stopped, the ambulance was rushing the mother to a mater. nity ward. The baby was born three hours later. It WAS nice change to bring a lite into this world after helping to зnuff out so many!

NEXT SATURDAY: The Courage of Jan And Liet

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EUROPE IS THEIR

F the half a million

many,

American troops and nirmen in Europe, dis- being upon charged, choose to stay behind and make Europe their home.

"AMERICA”

NORMAN LINDHURST VISITS SOME OF THE U.S. SERVICEMEN WHO PREFER TO STAY BEHIND IN EUROPE TO FIND OUT WHY THEY DO IT.

We

in

For three years, an Ameri- can Army colonel and his wife travelled all over West Ger- many in their free time look-

for

Italian ing

A good restaurant. They found severni but none that served spaghetti they and pizza ple the way like it.

Liqui-Colonel

at General So, former A Press officer Not a few, if they follow Europe-mainly in Ger- seats and small candle-lit

from tho U.S. Army, the pattern of American many are not primarily the booths which offer what Dwight D. Eisenhower's head- Frank O. Brown, recently re-

was as tirod quarters, McChrystal soldier expatriates from the dreamy types. Most are Socket calls "an intriguing, signed to Austria in 1945 to set opened his own Italian restaur

Germany, First World War, will never energetic businessmen. They intimate atmosphere." ip an American Information ant at Erzhutten,

and called it "Spaghetti House dance service. see the United States again, don't write avante garde Besides a regular

Brown." His wife does, all the brad, Bochet plans to offer The reasons

They are varied, literature.

operate

"One of the first things we cooking. 05 European fencing matches (as World restaurants, hotels, night entertainment but the fact is

for his largely did in Salzburg when

They believe it is the only arrived," he recalls, was to

American-owned Italian 503- War Two American troops clubs, factories and export- American clientele. were astonished to learn) import concerns.

Highpoint of the new dub, requisition Hotel Dristor

by laurant in Germany. Balzburg, which is owned

They picked this tile town will be according to Sochet,

·for there are many Americans

near tho Saar border the manner in which the food Hans Hubner.

A and drink will be served.

"Hubner's

was several rearons. While station- doughter

that od in

nearby miniature

Kajectslautern railway will circle occupying a corner toom walls behind glass sheels, we needed for a colonel, so we the wa

Brown nearly, three years, sent themselves, threw her out. That did it. She got to know

many of the traine taking car that chugs along to she

to she married, mel the appropriato table.

Three Years the. Social expecta to Jonny as a p

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Three Examples who first went to Europe with General John J. (Black

Three examples are Jack) Pershing's doughboys

general and of the American Expedi. Private, a

colonel. tionary Force, and never went home.

Private Marvin Sochet, of of the 48th Armoured Medical

for

Aatch a special order was determined in get oven. Sonds of', Americans' at the

The current crop American expatriates from Battalion, has purchased andmiston by Invitation the Alled occupation in controlling interest in the Those sunt origioni sucst from clude, a number of high- Jenny Club in Wiesbaden ourd will have the ranking officers, as well as As sood as he received his bringing newi

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