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. "Why did the Americans award the Medal of Freedom to s as much knowledge -—and atlene Brunnen—the Golden Well. insignia. Tt was astonishing how ica: if the Gestapo checked back, German doctor's son? This story gives the answer. longer, range than across athe On a clear day you could see the little most of the Joes Kknewl,r the name of a town which had 8 ‘ “CHAPTER ONE’ {Channel—was needed to bare lopsided spire of Strasbourg about their army outside the ust-been bombed, so they

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them. . 8, or hear aro g 5 | From the field at Blida, outside/and hear the German guns roll A Joe needs head as much as Dot check back. Re aotiog. hear around the cracker barrel or campus or bartop, Algiers, the Seventh launched from Kehl across the Rhine, heart. It is not enough to dare| On the night of a mission, Vati Some of the numbers are also forgotten. Thus, in Combat In-|*0me 30 agents, with chutes on] « ® =» {the jump behind the lines; he would slide him gut to the wait-| telligence, after the. target is reached, after the platoon or gu their backs and short-wave sets! STRIPPED OF identity in the|is worse than useless if he cannot|/ing car, to start for the front it i on their chests, into metropoli- littie office at the cage, dressed bring out a clear ‘account of|he were passing through a hole, or _for the fleld if he were drop-

THE WAR I8 OVER, and for all one can see in the streets or| |

is ‘located by. G-2 and destroyed by G-3, there is no need to record how it was found, or by what, here on 0 recol tan France. Off paper they called In American fatigues and combat what he sees; The difference be-

agent; or by what trick of uni. enemies for 12 years. The cita-| them. “Joes.” | boots, tagged only with a nick- tween reporting a battalion and|PIRR. i form or intonation or marksman- tion itself must mean that Karl| Fronmi inside the Metropole the name, the recruit would bela regiment might mean the The life behind was erased, and) ship he got his report through the spied against them for the Joes rddioed back to Africa the brought up to the Golden Well at success or failure of a divisional the life ahead was hidden. He line on time. “| Americans. ‘ [location of every enemy detach- suppertime. The Joe-handler ,n-|attack.: {went toh secret as he had come. For-all the erasures of time This colonel does not know you ment south of “Lyon: Group, troduced. him to the comrades s x =» v jfrom ohe, . one question stays with me un- 8nd did not know Karl. But his army; corps, division, regiment around the table in the day room.| EVERY FEW DAYS Army G-2| “(To “Ye Cr ntinued) ! records show you know our boy and battalion. This handler was an American gent down demands for informa- | Covrrishs 948, 1049. by Cleorge L. How

answered but unforgotten: Why { ost-Hall Syndicate, Ine. does thd spy risk his life? For and might tell us something about| Keeping just far enough ahead infantry sergeant, a second-gen- tion. They came from the guarded| Lot Dyndeate. a

his “hazardous mission.” of the retreat for accuracy, the eration German from Milwaukee. . e , What compulsion, and after what The colonel found your address|Joes paced Seventh Army along The Joes called him “Vati’ War room, where a great map of Santa to Visit

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: | i torment in. himself? across the ocean, and I venturejthe coast to Marseilles, up the which 1s an endearment some- the theater from Switzerland]

Not long ago the postmanito ask you to write me about our Rhine to Lyon, and across Bur-|thing like “Pops.” y Ng i drapped on my drafting board son's last days. gundy to the outposts of the, “Boys” Vati would call trom igus whole wart hae cross NOrth Siders a letter Sith A German stamp; Respectfully, Reich. the door, “this 1s -Hans"—of sliding black curtain. North Siders who live in the When I trans ated it the puzzle Gunther Maurer, M. D. | With the enemy backed against{whatever cover-name the recruit] Whenever a call came through, neighborhood of E. 46th: St. be-| of two Fears be ore Te urned to] yr..e js as much of the story his own frontier, the French Joes had drawn. the team in conclave picked one tween the Monon Railroad and| tease me, and by writing out my "1 iq remake after the two Were no more use to the team. Its| Vat's schoolroom had been!Joe, or at most two, for the mis-|

MeAnlay of Trea lee years, from my memory and|/information had to come out of Monsieur Apfél the proprietor'sision. For missions deep in the

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is the letter: from the fading memory of the the Reich itself, and it needed own dining room. The door was Reich it chose a pinpoint for thel gst from Santa Claus Saturday ’ others. I could not watch it all, German Joes to get it. |always locked, whether class was|drop, from captured German fi ply 8 Berlin, 10 January, 1947 py¢ one man swam an icy The likeliest place for the team on or not. Even Monsieur Apfel maps. An open field or a clear-|g, cPonsored by the East 46th Rosson Sir: {minefield in the Rhine with part/to recruit German Joes was the/was not allowed in this rooming in the woods was best, not{Street Merchants Association, § Sizes—Small, rom this jetterhead you seer it, and another stammered prisoner-of-war cage at Sarre- The Joes themselves took turns too near a town. It was often| Santa will carry special Christ. Medium, Large. Ble te and —r gome more in a cellar. The bourg in Lorraine. cleaning it. ~ {many miles beyond the Joe's real(pith Puchages of Aagy, suis and younger. son Klaus. My older son | American captain who recruited | Every afternoon a truckload or Vati had got hold of a big target, to avoid the charted flak oro are on his list ‘ Coloryee Karl is a corporal In the German the corporal remembers some, two of prisoners was driven in blackboard and some pink chalk.ior to assure solitude long enough | Perry Rhoades "of Rhoades ® Yellow Air Force. I atill say “is” from and so does the sergeant who from the front to be “processed (At 10 each morning he openedifor him to bury his chute. Transfer - will be 8t. Nick. Rer| ® Pink : habit; though the last word his strapped his chute. for the labor camps farther back.|the session with . a lesson in| To fit the time and place of his quests for Santa's visit are bel - ® Red Every woman loves these quilted satin mother and I have from him was , 1 must start further back, be-| At the interrogation it was sur- English, First he wrote the mission it created his cover—his |i taken by Miss Amy Fidler at ® Light Blue slippérs and case in pastel and dork written in February, 1945, from fore we knew the corporal, so prising how little they knew. By German word in script, then the false identity and a plausible pg 0206. Warren McCune 1s $ Hack shades. As wonderful ift 3 \ / or As that the doctor will understand/the Geneva Convention they need English capitals, as: [reason for his trip. It set up : ‘ . n ® Royel : aft os weve

an American prisoner-of-war ,,.¢ pis son was not recklessly tell no more than their names,| “Fahndungsblatt —BL A CK- shop to forge Soldbucher, travel erChANtS association president. ® Light Green over offered and of on unusuelly low camp. sent into danger, but joined a ranks, and numbers. LIST.” orders, train tickets, and ration! & Combinations price. 2 service which had had a long| . But since they all carried their, He held up a copy of the stamps; to press out the zinc dog-| Auxiliary Schedules tary authorities could never give career—and an honorable one, {service records, the little brown or booklet which the Gest~po issued tags every German soldier wore) | Y | P BE et Karl tN vesterinw | . 5 blue Soldbuch which lists a sol-|every Tuesday, listing desertersiat his neck; and to fake the| nnua vie arty Store Hours Until Xmas: 9:30 A. M. to 8:30 P. M. 1 The colonel who commands your! SEVENTH UNITED States dier's or airman’s past and pres- and suspected spies. eagle-anfl-swastika rubber seals| The Ladies Augiliary, Frater- ‘ bo . Denazification Branch called me Army, “born at sea and baptised ent units, the team could get a They change the color of each without which no military paper nal Order of Eagles Auxiliary WA K fo his office. He offered “me in in blood” came a long way before fair knowledge of Gérman battle issue, adding the new names and was valid. 211, will have its annual Christ- L - Karl's name the Medal of Free- it met the son of the Berlin order from their papers. omitting these who have ‘been The question. he would have to mas party at 6:30 p, m. Tuesday dom. doctor. i ” E wo “ oe Keep out of It. i. " {answer Ofyenett was “Where did/in ‘the Eagles--Club, 43 W, Ver. SHOE STORE y ; rized decoration! The jump of the Seventh .to/ WORD SO! / spread| Later in the morning the offi- you spend last night?” To that mont St. The program will in- a Eel : Wiha od ok oa citation Southern France was Operation among among the prisoners that|cers took over with the important he must give either the address of clude dinner and a gift exchange. 28 N.: Pennsylvania St. (Across from-Loew's) reads that our son is “presumed|Dragoon. Dragoon was one ofa soldier could, if he were ignoble!instruction. That was the identi- his Safe House where someone Mrs. Helen Diehner will be in lost by enemy action on a haz- the great invasions of history. enough, volunteer in a well-paid fication of enemy weapons and/would still dare to lie for Amef-'charge, | ardous mission voluntarily under-| Just because it did succeed so service for his captors. | — taken in the cause of Freedom.” neatly, history forgets that the] The word must have passed b These are long words, The “en-|southern defenses of the Wehr-|along the dark stone floors of the emy” in the citation can refer macht were as strong’ and as dormitories, from sleeping bag to only to the Nazis, who were my secret as the northern, and that blanket roll. Between two GerE RE RA man soldiers it could be uttered

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{ ungslin 0 surprise and contempt. QO nf dechons | The recruits never came in ET a Li #7 NGLLing | pairs. The prospect was led to the } a TaN b y.snug little office in a corner of thet beerdcl ahd wes ctarnedl. lover to the recruiting offféers|{who waited there. They spoke German too, as well as he. They had studied the prisoner's BSoldbuch before the sergeant brought

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