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Speaker 1: is the Overground Railroad.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dayangerious mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy lines knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
Speaker 3: the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens.
Speaker 4: So to this question answered yes.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 3: Loop and Dagger, Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are
Speaker 3: the weapons of the OSS. In tonight's episode, Overground Railroad,
Speaker 3: the part of Lieutenant Fontaine OSS agents who helped thousands
Speaker 3: of American airmen escape to safety is played by Lestremain,
Speaker 3: where he is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the
Speaker 3: Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story.
Speaker 2: That can now be told.
Speaker 4: When a flyer was forced down behind enemy lines, he
Speaker 4: was just another fugitive, moving cautiously at night to avoid detection,
Speaker 4: fighting for survival. His shelter was a haystacker, a hedgerow.
Speaker 4: For food, he dug raw potatoes or turnips from the field,
Speaker 4: and in his panic he was always just one step
Speaker 4: ahead of the Gestapo, with no knowledge of the country
Speaker 4: and no friend whom he could turn. A few of
Speaker 4: the lucky ones managed to escape back to England. I
Speaker 4: met one of those lucky ones in Colonel Johnson's office
Speaker 4: at OSS Headquarters in London, at Tenafontan.
Speaker 2: This is Major Davidson.
Speaker 4: How do you do? Major lad maya Fontwann Before.
Speaker 2: I asked Major Davidson to tell you a story, I
Speaker 2: want to say something, Yes, Colonel Johnson. At its narrowest,
Speaker 2: the English Channel is only twenty miles wide. Yet it
Speaker 2: took Major Davidson here more than a year to get across,
Speaker 2: and hundreds of Allied pilots all over France haven't been
Speaker 2: able to make it yet, and if something isn't done
Speaker 2: to help them, they never will.
Speaker 4: But Colonel, with the Nazis occupying France.
Speaker 2: With the Nazis occupying France, the channel is still only
Speaker 2: twenty miles wide. Our trouble has been that up to
Speaker 2: now we've had no contact with the French underground, no
Speaker 2: way of helping them smuggle pilots out of France. All right,
Speaker 2: Major Davidson, go ahead and tell your story now.
Speaker 6: Well, I was shot down over the south of France
Speaker 6: coming back from a bombing mission.
Speaker 4: The rest of the crew was killed of.
Speaker 6: Just my co pilot, Johnny Porter, and me left. Yes,
Speaker 6: go on meet. We figured out am as are up.
Speaker 6: Any flyer forced down on enemy territory figures that nowadays.
Speaker 6: But we were lucky. A farmer picked us up and
Speaker 6: hit us overnight, and then the next morning a big
Speaker 6: black limbs drove up and a woman about sixty got out.
Speaker 4: She took us to.
Speaker 6: Her house in Paris and kept us there. She found
Speaker 6: a way to smuggle us across the channel with a
Speaker 6: fisherman just a few days ago.
Speaker 4: Who was this woman, Major, Her name is.
Speaker 6: Madame Annette Jobert. I used to tell her she meant
Speaker 6: more to the Yankee team than Joe DiMaggio. During the
Speaker 6: time we were with her, she managed to collect two
Speaker 6: more of our boys, but she has no way of
Speaker 6: getting them out of France.
Speaker 2: Well, what do you think, Fontane?
Speaker 4: Just what you think, Colonel for the first time, Olay says,
Speaker 4: has a lead a contact.
Speaker 2: What you say?
Speaker 4: This woman's name was Major A.
Speaker 6: Jobert, Madam and Neette Jobert, and quite a goalto Colonel Johnson.
Speaker 4: With her help, maybe we can set up a chain
Speaker 4: of way stations, established a shall we say, an overland railroad,
Speaker 4: collect our flyers and move them like chessmen right across
Speaker 4: France to the channel.
Speaker 2: How soon can you leave.
Speaker 4: Anytime? You say, Colonel Johnson? Anytime?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: By the way, Major, how will I be able to
Speaker 4: identify myself to Madamoiseeurbert? Did you agree on any cold
Speaker 4: word anything?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, a black lace garter.
Speaker 4: I left London a few days later and landed the
Speaker 4: next morning on the coast of France. The disguised fishing
Speaker 4: boat let me off and I made my way to
Speaker 4: Paris undetected. It was spring nineteen forty four. I was
Speaker 4: going to know April in Paris, but not the way
Speaker 4: any American tourists before the war had known it. The
Speaker 4: red dawn was touching the roofs of Paris, the golden
Speaker 4: dome of the Pantheon. Most of the city was still
Speaker 4: dreaming of other better springtimes before the Germans came. Then
Speaker 4: the city started to wake up.
Speaker 3: Aye, I smacked away?
Speaker 4: Why I smack away alone? Bakers were at work through
Speaker 4: the windows, sweating the door. The waiters from the cafes
Speaker 4: were sweeping into the gutter the cigarette butts that their
Speaker 4: customers had dropped under the tables the night before. For
Speaker 4: a few minutes it was the Paris my mother had
Speaker 4: talked about. And then an official Nazi car turned the corner,
Speaker 4: and I knew that everything had changed me. I made
Speaker 4: my way to forty six for you, Dancy, where I'd
Speaker 4: find Madame Annette Jobert. Madame Jobert, Madame Jobert.
Speaker 7: What are you doing making all that fucket so early
Speaker 7: in the morning?
Speaker 8: People are still trying to sleep here?
Speaker 4: Why I'm sorry, I'm looking for Madame and Jobert. This
Speaker 4: is her house, isn't it?
Speaker 7: We it this her house?
Speaker 4: Did you see her go out this morning?
Speaker 2: Do you think I.
Speaker 9: Have nothing better to do than keep an account of
Speaker 9: her comings and goings. But I did not see her
Speaker 9: go out this morning, and I have not seen her
Speaker 9: go out any morning.
Speaker 8: For a week.
Speaker 4: Just moved, moved.
Speaker 2: If you take the trouble to knock your city windows.
Speaker 4: Or boarded up, madam, madam, please, I've got to locate her.
Speaker 4: I'm her nephew.
Speaker 8: Ask how good friends? The Germans?
Speaker 7: Where she is good to the is stuffle?
Speaker 4: Well wait a minute, please, I was up applying there.
Speaker 4: I had come to parents because I had a contact.
Speaker 4: Now the contact was gone.
Speaker 10: There you are, Monsieur MERSI the first one in that
Speaker 10: cafe this morning. I remember other springs was always crowded
Speaker 10: at this time.
Speaker 4: What is it for, Sieur? Do you not feel way
Speaker 4: something wrong? No? No, not not wrong exactly. It's just
Speaker 4: that I came to Paris to see my aunt. It
Speaker 4: seems she's moved and left no forwarding address.
Speaker 10: But there is always one way to find her away.
Speaker 4: What is it? You're the only to go to the
Speaker 4: Gestapo that they will do? You go to the Gestapo
Speaker 4: and ask sure? Why not? Always? This was in particular
Speaker 4: who helped us? As long as we got the help,
Speaker 4: I was sure Colonel Johnson wouldn't object to by letting
Speaker 4: even the Gestapo give us a hand. I beg your pardon.
Speaker 11: I can't see them on the phone.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: Yeah, coming album blacklish at.
Speaker 3: Coming on.
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 11: What is it around?
Speaker 4: I would like some information, that kind of information. I
Speaker 4: arrived from south of France this morning. I came to
Speaker 4: visit my aunt. Only I discovered when I got here
Speaker 4: that she had moved.
Speaker 11: What do you want us to do about it?
Speaker 4: Well, I merely request her change of address. I felt
Speaker 4: certain it would be in the records of the guest
Speaker 4: stopping records.
Speaker 11: The address are changeab address of anyone in Paris that's
Speaker 11: listed with us.
Speaker 4: What's the name of your aunt, Jobert, madam, And that's Jobert.
Speaker 11: Let me see your papers?
Speaker 4: Yes, there you are.
Speaker 11: These papers are heres intrigued me? Have I seen any
Speaker 11: like them before?
Speaker 4: Something wrong with him?
Speaker 11: On the contrary, they I figured out extremely accurately. Usually
Speaker 11: one thing or another is omitted. I congratulate you on
Speaker 11: your sighness. Thank you, sergeant, thank you, I commandant. There
Speaker 11: is a Frenchman at the front desk who is trying
Speaker 11: to locate his aunt and madam a natral bear. Yeah,
Speaker 11: come on, dan him in. Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Sergeant wait, wait, one another thing. Your suitcase, my suitcase,
Speaker 11: and no one is allowed past this desk without having
Speaker 11: his luggage or packets checked. Put your suitcase up you
Speaker 11: an open.
Speaker 4: It suitcase was filled with clothing, but there was a
Speaker 4: false bottom to it, and in the false bottom was
Speaker 4: a short wave radio. If the sergeant accidentally pushed the button,
Speaker 4: that would reveal the radio.
Speaker 3: That is so slow?
Speaker 11: About do you give me that suitcase?
Speaker 2: Why are you having it?
Speaker 3: Rocks?
Speaker 4: No? No? Yes, yes, you see just personal articles I see.
Speaker 11: Do you think I expected you to walk in to
Speaker 11: get Starpo headquarters with a time bomb? I short they've
Speaker 11: read on your suit just perhaps that's just the team.
Speaker 4: I must check up.
Speaker 11: A commandan's office. Hat down the whole first door you
Speaker 11: come to under at.
Speaker 4: You sit down, Sit down, monsieur cigar. The wine soaked
Speaker 4: cigars are very good, Thank you, he commandant. I never
Speaker 4: resist a good cigar or a pretty girl.
Speaker 3: You wonder perhaps why I am seeing you personally about
Speaker 3: this matter of locating you around?
Speaker 4: Whatever the reason, Commandant, could I'm flattered or not at all?
Speaker 3: Tell you around for me that I am delighted to
Speaker 3: render her his little service.
Speaker 4: Fine woman, a delightful woman.
Speaker 3: And a clever woman too. She's been most cooperative. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sure she has. Commandant Kurtz is most urgent. That
Speaker 3: I find her urgent, how urgent.
Speaker 4: I have news for her about my uncle, her brother,
Speaker 4: who is very ill in the south of France. Pity
Speaker 4: it still over me that if she desires a trifle,
Speaker 4: I will arrange for the necessary permit. Of course, we
Speaker 4: are very kind, not at all, not at all. Hell,
Speaker 4: let me see. Ah, yeah it is.
Speaker 3: She's boarded up our house at forty six Old dan Sike,
Speaker 3: as you know, and moved to another residence twenty kilometers
Speaker 3: southwest of Pels in the village of Torri Ferrot.
Speaker 4: He here, yeah, right out, exact address. Thank you for
Speaker 4: your help, her Commandant, I assure you I will never
Speaker 4: forget it. I took a train to the village of
Speaker 4: Turiferout way, I kept thinking about Madame Jeanbert. The German
Speaker 4: High Command evidently considered her one of the most important collaborationists.
Speaker 4: We considered her our most important contact with the French underground.
Speaker 4: She certainly had someone food I hoped it was the Nazis.
Speaker 12: Madame Jiebert is in here, monsieur in the library, Mercy,
Speaker 12: Monsieur Fontine.
Speaker 9: Madame, comean, comean, Jessill you may go and close the door. Madame,
Speaker 9: come close, No, come closer. Let me have a good
Speaker 9: look at you. He yeah, it's quite far enough.
Speaker 7: Now. What's all this nonsense about being my nephew.
Speaker 4: What's the matter, Arvin? Don't you recognize me?
Speaker 7: I've never seen you before in my life.
Speaker 4: I have regards for you from friends, friends, Major Norman
Speaker 4: Davidson and Lieutenant Johnny Porter.
Speaker 7: I've never heard of them.
Speaker 4: You don't remember helping to smuggle them across the channel, Addie, this.
Speaker 7: Is insolence of what are you accusing.
Speaker 4: Me of being an important link in the French underground?
Speaker 9: Nonsince, I know of no underground if there is one
Speaker 9: that does not concern me. Now go back and tell
Speaker 9: them at Gestapo headquarters that they have made a mistake,
Speaker 9: and they'll Commandant courts.
Speaker 7: I am hurt at his suspicions of me.
Speaker 4: What makes you think the Gestapo sent me?
Speaker 9: Only the Gestapo knows my change of address.
Speaker 4: They were very obliging.
Speaker 9: They gave it to me, I ask you to leave, monsieur,
Speaker 9: I am very busy this afternoon.
Speaker 4: I believe you lost this, Madame Joubert.
Speaker 7: That luckless garto. Where did you get it?
Speaker 4: Was given to me by Major Davidson, who says you
Speaker 4: mean more of the Yankee team than Joe DiMaggio. He
Speaker 4: also told me to give you a great, big kiss.
Speaker 9: But well, bless my heart, bless my heart, indeed you
Speaker 9: still want me to leave.
Speaker 7: You are as fresh as all Americans. Sit down, Sit down,
Speaker 7: thank you.
Speaker 9: So you just walked in and asked bigger stuff for
Speaker 9: almost your good swine.
Speaker 7: Oh I'd like to see their faces if they knew, Oh.
Speaker 4: Come, come, come, Madame Joebert. Is that a way to talk?
Speaker 4: They think very highly of you.
Speaker 7: Which is just what I want them to think.
Speaker 4: We're the other two pilots now, Madam.
Speaker 9: I deposited them in a monastery in the south of Safety,
Speaker 9: but I have no way to get them to the channel.
Speaker 4: Look, Madame Jobert, perhaps you and I can establish a
Speaker 4: chain of way stations safe houses across France, and then
Speaker 4: the Osays can collect the hundreds of flyers were shut
Speaker 4: down and you can send them back to Safety.
Speaker 9: Yes, how could I do that without help, without a
Speaker 9: way to contact England.
Speaker 4: I have a radio in the suitcase.
Speaker 9: Very well, in the morning we will drive to the monastery.
Speaker 9: The monks their friendly. They would be more than glad.
Speaker 9: I am sure to let us use that as a
Speaker 9: base to start operations.
Speaker 4: Great, that's wonderful, Madam Jobert.
Speaker 7: You had the kiss for me from mid Joe Davidson.
Speaker 4: Where is it right here? Auntie?
Speaker 7: Next see?
Speaker 9: And now, young man, you will oblige me by giving
Speaker 9: me back my garter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she was quite a girl, all right, Madame Jobert.
Speaker 4: She gave me a suite of rooms to myself, got
Speaker 4: me a chaffeur's uniform, decided my name should be Claude,
Speaker 4: and in the morning we set out for the monastery.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Fontaine a cloud. That is just what we
Speaker 7: will do.
Speaker 4: Yes, oh, says We'll furnish each member of an air
Speaker 4: crew with detailed escape maps when they are briefed in England,
Speaker 4: pinpointing the friendly areas on the root of every mission.
Speaker 4: Do you think these safe houses will be difficult to
Speaker 4: set up?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Not too difficult.
Speaker 9: I think I know already of the home of his
Speaker 9: sympathetic parish priest, a church, school, a farmhouse, and I
Speaker 9: have many wealthy friends who will be willing.
Speaker 7: I am sure. Why are you slowing down?
Speaker 4: Nazi? God wants me to stop.
Speaker 7: Don't worry. I have all the necessary permits.
Speaker 13: I let me see a permit to travel.
Speaker 9: Eh, you are this is a great inconvenience.
Speaker 7: I will report it to my friend, Commandant.
Speaker 13: Courts, Commandant Kurtz. I see you have his personal stamper
Speaker 13: on this pass. Where are you headed for, Madame Joubert.
Speaker 7: I have business in the village.
Speaker 4: Ah, I would suggest you do not go today.
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 13: There's to be an execution at the square.
Speaker 4: Not very pleasant, but execution.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
Speaker 13: We found thirty five tons of arms and materials that
Speaker 13: were stolen from German supply trains.
Speaker 7: Found all that where.
Speaker 4: In the monastery.
Speaker 7: The monastery. I cannot believe.
Speaker 4: That here, but it is true. And today they will
Speaker 4: be shot, five.
Speaker 7: Of them, I see Cloud continue.
Speaker 13: You may go if you like, but it will not
Speaker 13: be very pleasant.
Speaker 8: Lord continue, madam.
Speaker 7: So they discovered the supplies in the monastery.
Speaker 4: What about the two American flyers you had hidden there?
Speaker 4: Did they discover them too? Are they among the five.
Speaker 7: Quickly, drive quickly cloud.
Speaker 4: We reached the square, parked the car and got out.
Speaker 4: The people were huddled in little whispering groups. At the
Speaker 4: far end of the square stood the monastery, and lined
Speaker 4: up at the wall were five monks, their heads lowered,
Speaker 4: their hands fingering the crosses around their necks. Facing them
Speaker 4: was a Nazi firing squad. Madame Joelbert grabbed my arm.
Speaker 4: What the want to do? I don't think there's anything
Speaker 4: we can do. Let this be a lesson to your people.
Speaker 3: Off this village. This is what happens to those who
Speaker 3: five against us.
Speaker 6: These five will be shot, the.
Speaker 3: Other monks and the monastery will be sent to Germany.
Speaker 5: You understand.
Speaker 3: Heke a good look, lod you're lessened.
Speaker 7: By wat.
Speaker 1: Ah ah.
Speaker 4: Madame Jobert and I went back to the car. But
Speaker 4: Madame Jobert, if you drive back yourself, what will the
Speaker 4: guards say who stopped us before?
Speaker 7: I am an excellent liar.
Speaker 9: I will simply tell him I went to see a
Speaker 9: sick relative and left you there to help. I must
Speaker 9: drive back immediately, As I told you, I am giving
Speaker 9: a birthday party for commandow Courts. I hope he does
Speaker 9: not live to see his next. No, you go to
Speaker 9: the convent. It is only a few kilometers from here.
Speaker 7: You know what to do.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know what to do. Madame Jobert, what do
Speaker 4: you think one of those two pilots who were hidden
Speaker 4: in the monastery, they.
Speaker 7: Were probably found and killed.
Speaker 9: But Lieutenant Fontane, we must go on with our plans.
Speaker 9: Some have been killed, lu but many gunn be saved.
Speaker 4: I said good bye to her. She drove away. The
Speaker 4: Convent of our Sacred Lady was within walking distance. When
Speaker 4: I reached the gate, I saw an avenue of acacia
Speaker 4: trees leading to the great ornate iron door. The center
Speaker 4: panel formed the figure of the Virgin Mary. It was
Speaker 4: really spring in these gardens, a peaceful sanctuary in a
Speaker 4: war ridden world.
Speaker 7: What is your wish?
Speaker 4: I would like to see the Mother Superior.
Speaker 7: Follow me.
Speaker 4: I followed the nun through the spacious hall. It was
Speaker 4: part vestry, part repository of art objects. The walls were
Speaker 4: hung with darkened old paintings of the Holy Family in
Speaker 4: glass chests. Along the vestry, religious utensils of gold and
Speaker 4: silver had been stored.
Speaker 7: This is the officer, Mother Angeline.
Speaker 12: Come so you want me to let you use the
Speaker 12: convent of our sacred lady as a base for your
Speaker 12: underground operations.
Speaker 4: Mother Anjeline, if you know the risk yourself and refuse.
Speaker 4: I can't find it in my heart to blame you,
Speaker 4: but if you agree, I want you to know first
Speaker 4: just what those risks are. Tell me, my son, I've
Speaker 4: just come from the village. The monastery there was rated
Speaker 4: last night. With my own eyes, I saw five of
Speaker 4: the monks shut. The others were hauled away by the Nazis.
Speaker 4: Only God knows where I know about that I heard
Speaker 4: this morning. If this convent is used as a hideout
Speaker 4: and the short wave radio is hidden here, can you
Speaker 4: imagine what the Germans would do if they found out?
Speaker 4: You would expect no better treatment than the monks received.
Speaker 12: I thank you for telling me this. You are right,
Speaker 12: there's a great risk. I have many under my care here.
Speaker 12: They depend on my wisdom to do the right thing.
Speaker 4: Of course, you have the other sisters to consider.
Speaker 12: You came here today to convince me of your cause.
Speaker 12: I'm afraid I must disappoint you.
Speaker 4: What's that you see? I what's the matter?
Speaker 12: A German armored car? I can see it from the
Speaker 12: window coming here. I'm afraid so it is the first
Speaker 12: time we have been raided. I am not looking forward
Speaker 12: to them muddy boots in this place of God.
Speaker 4: They'll find me, Mother Angeline. What can I do? Where
Speaker 4: can I hide?
Speaker 7: They are at the door you rang for me, my mayor.
Speaker 12: Yes, Sister Theresa, give my friend one of the sisters robes,
Speaker 12: one long enough to cover him, and a hood.
Speaker 7: Women here the other sisters are They already in the chapel.
Speaker 7: Women here, they have thirty the afternoon aderation.
Speaker 12: See that my friend joins them in prayer. Then then
Speaker 12: open the main door.
Speaker 7: We have visited us.
Speaker 4: I put a mumsch over my suit and went with
Speaker 4: Sister Teresa to the chapel. I knelt with the others.
Speaker 4: About twenty b divided by a middle aisle provided seats
Speaker 4: for the worshippers. At the far end of the room
Speaker 4: was a high pulpit. Many of the kneeling prayed with
Speaker 4: arms stretched out, symbolizing the form of the cross. The
Speaker 4: sister next to me clasped her hands and on her
Speaker 4: ring finger was the silver emblem of a bride of Christ.
Speaker 4: They prayed almost silently. Hers were the only words I heard.
Speaker 14: Our maternal power of the universe, Mother of divine grace.
Speaker 14: Pray for us, our wisest virgin, our kindly virgin. Pray
Speaker 14: for us, Pray for the sick world.
Speaker 12: Good sisters, these soldiers wished to serve the chapel. I
Speaker 12: must bow to their wishes and ask you to file
Speaker 12: back to your seads.
Speaker 7: Leave now quickly and quietly. Please.
Speaker 4: My head lowered, the hood covering my face. I got
Speaker 4: into the line of the sisters. I bent my knees
Speaker 4: slightly so that the robes would cover the chaffeur's boots
Speaker 4: I was wearing. I lowered my head even more as
Speaker 4: I passed the es as Hupman, who was standing with
Speaker 4: his men next to the Mother Superior at the door.
Speaker 6: Oh good, the necessity of disturbing your prayer, mil Angeline.
Speaker 6: And after the unfortunate incident in the monastery last night,
Speaker 6: I feel it is necessary.
Speaker 12: You may search this convent from top to bottom, as
Speaker 12: you are already doing. You will find nothing in this
Speaker 12: house of God to interest you.
Speaker 7: I'm sure. Hurry, sisters, hurry back to yourselves.
Speaker 4: They're really gone. Mother Arjeline.
Speaker 7: Of course they found nothing here.
Speaker 12: You can take that rope off now you look uncomfortably
Speaker 12: in it.
Speaker 4: Thank you for protecting me.
Speaker 7: I believe now, but we have not finished our condoxation.
Speaker 4: Mother Arjeline, you told me I could not convince you
Speaker 4: about our cause you said you'd have to disappoint me.
Speaker 4: I took that as your answer.
Speaker 7: Let me consult two of the other sisters. First. Wait,
Speaker 7: we am a mayor.
Speaker 12: Our two sisters those in the sacristy. Send them here, please,
Speaker 12: Sister Celeste.
Speaker 4: A few minutes later, Sister Celeste returned, followed by the
Speaker 4: two other nuns. Their arms folded and heads lowered, they
Speaker 4: shuffled into the room, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I noticed broad towed army boots protruding beneath the long
Speaker 4: black dresses. One of the heads raised, and I saw
Speaker 4: that he needed a shave. Mother Argerlie, I don't understand
Speaker 4: these men.
Speaker 12: They are American pilot brought here yesterday when the monks
Speaker 12: received underground information that the monastery would be raided. Major Kerstein,
Speaker 12: Captain Lewis, this is Lieutenant Fontane of the oss Osa.
Speaker 15: Said it's great if you got away of getting it's
Speaker 15: out of France. Lieutennant, Yeah, say what happened to Madame Jiobert?
Speaker 15: She all right, yeah, yeah, she's all right, Mother, Arjeline.
Speaker 15: You led me to believe I wouldn't be able to
Speaker 15: convince you of our cause.
Speaker 4: Of course, not.
Speaker 7: Son, how could you, since I was already convinced.
Speaker 4: The convent of our Sacred Lady was the first link
Speaker 4: in a chain of safe houses that was forged within
Speaker 4: a couple of months under Madame Jolbert's leadership. We moved
Speaker 4: Major Kerstein and Captain Lewis along that chain until they
Speaker 4: reached the coast of France. They waited hidden in a
Speaker 4: farmer's barn while I established contact with headquarters in London.
Speaker 4: Agent Fontaine to OSS headquarters in London. Overground railroad, established
Speaker 4: train on the tracks, passengers ready to leave and waiting
Speaker 4: pick them up and make room for more to come.
Speaker 4: More did come.
Speaker 3: Over two thousand more Yemen who were shot down and
Speaker 3: occupied France rode the overground railroad established by Lieutenant Claude
Speaker 3: Fontaine to safety. Thus, once again, the report of another
Speaker 3: OSS agent closed.
Speaker 2: With the words mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
Speaker 3: files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 5: Heard him Tonight's Clock and Dagger Adventures. Lieutenant Fontaine was
Speaker 5: less Romaine Madame Jobert, Brianna Raeburn and Mother Angeline Lily Valente.
Speaker 5: The script was written by Wonderfred Rolf and Jack Gordon.
Speaker 5: The music was under the direction of John Guard, sound
Speaker 5: effects by John Powers and Many Siegel. Today's OSS Adventure
Speaker 5: was based on the book Cloaking Dagger by Corey Ford
Speaker 5: and Alistair McBain.
Speaker 2: This program was produced by Lewis G.
Speaker 6: Conley.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. So our man strolled into GESTAPO headquarters with
Speaker 1: a suitcase containing his shortwave radio. And this is not
Speaker 1: the first time in this series that in OSS operative
Speaker 1: has escaped because he did something very risky and ill advised,
Speaker 1: but the Axes didn't suspect it because such a mistake
Speaker 1: would be so ridiculous, it was unthinkable. And it's important
Speaker 1: once again to remember that the OSS was not made
Speaker 1: up primarily of professional spies. These were mostly people who
Speaker 1: came from civilian life and other professions who were given
Speaker 1: months of training, and certainly that training helped, but it
Speaker 1: can provide the sort of instinctive behaviors and approaches we
Speaker 1: associate with today's professional espionage class. I think that also
Speaker 1: played into how he approached setting up the overground railroad,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that if you were dealing with
Speaker 1: say the CIA or something like that, that they would
Speaker 1: have near the hesitation he had. But the narration gives
Speaker 1: you a sense of how reluctant he was about putting
Speaker 1: these women in danger and the reverence he felt for
Speaker 1: that place, but ultimately the decision had already been made.
Speaker 1: The episode highlights once again the sort of unflinching courage
Speaker 1: by the civilian resistance groups in these Nazi occupied countries
Speaker 1: and the risk they were willing to take to be
Speaker 1: sure that freedom prevailed. Listener comments and feedback, and we
Speaker 1: have a couple of comments on the Norwegian incident over
Speaker 1: on YouTube. A simple thanks Adam, I enjoyed it from Chris,
Speaker 1: and a thank you from Mark, and also on our
Speaker 1: listener survey, Robin Connecticut rites Kloakin Dagger is my new
Speaker 1: favorite show. Well, thanks so much, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And I've really been delighted at the positive reaction we've
Speaker 1: had to this series. Very different than most things we've done,
Speaker 1: but people have really embraced it and it's been a
Speaker 1: lot to play it for you and look forward to
Speaker 1: a few more weeks. All right, well, now it is
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