1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,759 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,879 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:20,239 going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak and Dagger. 4 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,679 But I do want to let you know today's program 5 00:00:22,879 --> 00:00:25,519 is brought to you by the financial support of our listeners. 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,120 You can support the show on a one time basis 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,439 by mainly the donation to Adam Graham pillbox one five 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,119 nine one three. That's peelbox one five nine thirteen, Boise, 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,280 Idaho eight three seven one five and become one of 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:47,359 our ongoing Patreon supporters at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 11 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,600 Now from June fourth, nineteen fifty, here is the Brenner 12 00:00:52,759 --> 00:00:55,479 Pass story. 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,399 Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,039 enemy line knowing you may never return alive? 15 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during 16 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,159 the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who 17 00:01:17,159 --> 00:01:19,280 to this question answered yes. 18 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:22,359 Speaker 4: This is. 19 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:46,159 Speaker 3: Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are 20 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:51,040 the weapons of the OSS. Today's story, the Brenner Pass, 21 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:54,719 is the story of an American engineer who single handed 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,079 cut off the escape of part of the German Army 23 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:01,200 in Italy from unrushing American troops. The Brenner Pass is 24 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:04,879 suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of 25 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:08,800 the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now 26 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:09,639 be told. 27 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:30,439 Speaker 5: No, no, Padre, I don't want drink. Drink this. Feel 28 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,840 your meal. It will warm your inside. I want to 29 00:02:34,879 --> 00:02:37,680 talk to you. I want to tell you. 30 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 6: Drink this first. Right, I'm so tired. Rest then, so 31 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,960 so tired. You. 32 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 5: You won't give me away, will you? You will hide 33 00:02:55,879 --> 00:02:59,960 me if the Germans come, won't you, Padre? Won't you? 34 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,319 Speaker 7: You came to me, my son, because you knew I'd 35 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:06,719 give you sanctuary. Any man has sanctuary in this house. Yes, 36 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:08,319 hasten an oath. 37 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:09,199 Speaker 8: Feel your meal. 38 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 7: Anything you tell me only God and I will witness. 39 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:16,719 And if I had not taken this oath, I still 40 00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:22,000 would not give you away. Thank you, father. You are 41 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:25,280 an American. That much you have told me. Do you 42 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:27,080 want to tell me more? Or do you want to 43 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:27,800 sleep first? 44 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 5: No? No, it is better you sleep first. I'll sit 45 00:03:32,439 --> 00:03:36,039 beside you. I won't leave you. No, No, Padrick, I 46 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,120 want to tell you that may not be much time. 47 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,240 I have a feeling that time is running out for me. 48 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:54,319 My name was Donald Harper. I say it was because 49 00:03:55,639 --> 00:03:58,520 somehow I don't feel as if I have a name anymore. 50 00:03:59,759 --> 00:04:03,759 When you're tracked down and hunted, you're not a human being. 51 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,520 There's no past or future. There's just a present and 52 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:13,719 you run. So much has happened in a few weeks 53 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:17,439 that it's hard for me to remember. Remember back from 54 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,480 this morning when you found me unconscious on the steps 55 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,600 of the chapel, back to the morning I was sent 56 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:28,399 on my mission, November twelfth, nineteen forty four. 57 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 2: Captain Harper. I'm well aware of everything we have to 58 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,639 gain if this scheme of your succeeds. 59 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 5: You still think it's just a scheme, may Colonel, I 60 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:43,680 don't have to think. 61 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,319 Speaker 2: I know what your chances are of actually getting through 62 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,160 to the Brenner Paz and blowing up that highway, and 63 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,319 I know what'll happen to you if the Italian fascists 64 00:04:53,399 --> 00:04:54,720 or the German police catch you. 65 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 5: I know a couple of things, too, Colonel. One of 66 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,680 them is the country up there in the mountains. Yes, 67 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,759 I nearly broke my neck half a dozen times when 68 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,720 I was a kid climbing the rocks around my grandmother's hut, 69 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:09,399 and just before the war I took a trip from 70 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:12,519 the States to see her again. I skied over every 71 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,199 inch of that mountain near the Brenner Pass. Colonel, I 72 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:16,360 know I can do it. 73 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:20,199 Speaker 2: We've been through this before, Harper. I'm aware of everything 74 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,480 in your favor, your knowledge of the country, the fact 75 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:25,240 that you were an engineer before the war. 76 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 5: Yes, give me supplies some TNT in Italian uniform and 77 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,560 some phony papers in case I tangle with the FASCISTI 78 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,240 it's all I need, Colonel, I tell you I can 79 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:36,839 do it. 80 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 2: It's true. If that highway to the Brenner Pass could 81 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,759 be destroyed, it would take the Germans months to repair it. 82 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:47,399 It would cut off one of their retreats out of Germany. 83 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:51,319 In course, now we'd have them where we want them. 84 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,600 When the American armies advanced their backs to the mountains 85 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,199 and no way out. 86 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 5: That's it. That's it. Your permission, colonel, Please let me 87 00:05:59,319 --> 00:05:59,720 try it. 88 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 2: M you say your grandmother's hut is right near your objective. Yes, sir, 89 00:06:07,319 --> 00:06:10,120 I'll give you names to memorize of other partisans in 90 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,519 the mountains who might help you on the way. I'll 91 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:16,360 have all the supplies you requested, and you can leave. 92 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,399 Speaker 5: From the beginning Padre. I had bad luck. It snowed 93 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:33,639 during most of the forty mile journey, and it was 94 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,000 difficult for me to move quickly, and the longer it 95 00:06:37,079 --> 00:06:39,720 took me, the more chance I had of being discovered. 96 00:06:41,399 --> 00:06:51,639 Then it came. You know what a storm is like 97 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,600 here in the mountains, how it can blinded you and 98 00:06:54,800 --> 00:07:01,720 throw you against the rocks. When it was all over, 99 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:06,040 I realized what had happened. I had been thrown off 100 00:07:06,079 --> 00:07:09,839 my course, but that wasn't the worst of it. My 101 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:14,120 knapsack was gone, all my supplies and the packet with 102 00:07:14,199 --> 00:07:17,439 papers the OSS had forged for me. I had no 103 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,439 identification now and no food, but I still had the 104 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:40,160 TNT for the highway. Near Ampezzo. There is a tavern Padre, 105 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:44,759 not far from Parola. It wasn't sheer recklessness, but desperation 106 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:46,879 that made me go in there, and knowing I had 107 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:51,759 no papers, knowing the tavern catered to Nazis and FASCISTI 108 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:56,439 knowing the rucksack on my back was filled with explosives. 109 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,160 But there was no other place for miles, and I 110 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:02,839 had to get food. I couldn't go on talking tell us. 111 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,439 Speaker 9: More of the store. 112 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:16,199 Speaker 10: She was fast, was like, it. 113 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 5: Looks like this. What would you like to order some 114 00:08:23,959 --> 00:08:26,480 bread and cheese if you have it, and some coffee black, 115 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:33,159 very strong. If you have it, bring it fast for you, Yes, fast, 116 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:33,799 bring it. 117 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 9: Fast right away. 118 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 5: I tried to make myself as inconspicuous as possible. I 119 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,200 hope the Germans would continue to be amused by the 120 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,039 Italian girl and not asked to see my papers. I 121 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,840 had nearly frozen in the snow a half hour before. 122 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,960 Now the sweat broke out all over my forehead. Pay 123 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,240 attention to her, I kept praying. 124 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:08,279 Speaker 11: Watch her, watch her. Don't even look my way. Gotsy, 125 00:09:10,039 --> 00:09:10,639 it is here. 126 00:09:10,919 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 9: I haven't here right. 127 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 8: No, that soldier must be important to be her person. 128 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,919 Speaker 10: Your soldier, come over here and tell us how important 129 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:19,480 you are. 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 5: No, I'm not important at all. Forgive me the way 131 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:31,720 they should have served you first. 132 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 12: That's the soldier I have here with us, poor soldier, 133 00:09:42,279 --> 00:09:42,679 you are no. 134 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,799 Speaker 8: No one has to be here with us, soldier. 135 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 5: No, I I gratzy, senor, and I I will just 136 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:53,200 finish this coffee and then I must go. 137 00:09:54,639 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 8: Come back to wait a minute. You must not be 138 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,080 rude soldier, and then I never wrote to me. If 139 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,840 I asked you to drink with us. 140 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 5: You must no, no, please Senora, some other time. Perhaps 141 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:08,679 now now I must go. 142 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,039 Speaker 13: Huh, you're afraid of me, afraid of girls, and afraid 143 00:10:13,039 --> 00:10:13,759 to drink beer. 144 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 14: Oh, you should be back in your mama's lap. I 145 00:10:17,919 --> 00:10:21,039 will give you some beer now, Perhaps you will acquire 146 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,080 a taste for it. 147 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:30,919 Speaker 5: Here she threw it in my face. I felt it 148 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:32,960 start to trickle down my neck, and I could hear 149 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,639 the Germans laughing themselves sick. I wanted to snap that 150 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:38,919 small neck of hers in half for making me the 151 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:39,759 center of attraction. 152 00:10:41,080 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 9: Gratzy waiter, you are sure, you are very sure you 153 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,240 are not followed here to my house? 154 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 5: Very sure, Amico. And it's snowing again. Even the tracks 155 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:09,360 from my snow shoes are covered. 156 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 9: We must be careful, very careful, all of us, partisans. 157 00:11:13,399 --> 00:11:15,879 The Germans are closing in on us. Do you know 158 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,000 what would happen if they found out I took you 159 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,440 in an American? 160 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 5: This would happen. But I tell you there's nothing to 161 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,279 worry about, and I'll be gone in the morning. Ah, 162 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,200 good morning one one. All I want is a night's rest. 163 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 9: There is a bed in the back room. You mean you, 164 00:11:32,519 --> 00:11:35,879 senior Harper, You are sure you are not followed? 165 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 8: Very sure? 166 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and I'll be gone in the morning before 167 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:39,879 you're awake. 168 00:11:40,519 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 9: What's the things in your the time being in a 169 00:11:42,759 --> 00:11:46,720 species of hospitable. But these times there very bad times 170 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:50,279 for all of Yes, yes, I know it is important too. Yes, 171 00:11:50,519 --> 00:11:52,840 in order to fight back later, one must leave now. 172 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 5: No, yes, yes, the Germans. 173 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 9: Are clever, very clever. 174 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:05,399 Speaker 5: If fine you you were here. I was too tired 175 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,879 to stand there and listen to the old man's whimpering, 176 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,879 too tired to watch his narrow eyes like small brown 177 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,399 buttons dart about the room, looking first at the windows 178 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,320 and then at the door, half expecting the guest stopper 179 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:22,200 to come. All I wanted to do was sleep. I 180 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:25,200 fell across the bed, But a few minutes later I 181 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:34,000 sat bowled upright, listening to the voices in the next room, Bottle. 182 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 9: He was here, an American at the back home sleeping. 183 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,759 Speaker 8: Are you sure? Are you sure he's an American. 184 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 9: Father's name is Harpor, long old Harbor to the American, 185 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,320 always says city American. 186 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 12: Oh, how the German police would like to know that. 187 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 5: That girl, the girl from the tavern, the friend of 188 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,799 the Germans. I didn't stay here anymore. There was a 189 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,840 small door leading out to the back of the hut. 190 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,200 I knew, Padre, that somehow I must have come to 191 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,679 the wrong house. I didn't dare take any more chances 192 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,600 and stop again until I reached my grandmother's. And I 193 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,279 was so tired, so tired. 194 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 8: To know them. 195 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 5: You don't know them. 196 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:36,879 Speaker 8: So good it is to see. 197 00:13:36,639 --> 00:13:38,399 Speaker 5: You again, Nana. 198 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,879 Speaker 13: Nana, Oh, but how you look so thin, so tired? 199 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:47,919 Speaker 5: Nothing changes here, does it. It could be six years 200 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:53,879 ago or ten, Nana, sitting here like this in this house, your. 201 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 8: Mom, your papa? How are they? Mail does not come 202 00:13:56,279 --> 00:13:57,360 here easily any longer? 203 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 5: You have heard from them, Yes, Nana, a few weeks ago. 204 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,240 Oh that's fine. They tried so hard to get you 205 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:04,559 to America. When the war came. 206 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 8: I would not go anywhere on you. This is my home. 207 00:14:10,279 --> 00:14:14,159 Speaker 13: No one could make me leave my home, not the Germans, 208 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:19,000 not the FASCISTI here I stay until the world rites 209 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:19,799 itself again. 210 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,639 Speaker 8: But what can I get you? It's comedy. Make yourself comfortable. 211 00:14:25,679 --> 00:14:29,039 Speaker 5: You are hungry, yes, but I'm I'm too tired. To eat. 212 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,960 I just want to sleep. 213 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:33,519 Speaker 8: Do then I'll make up the room for you later. 214 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:36,960 For now, rest here on this couch. When you wake, 215 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:41,159 I will have food for you like the old days. Caromel, 216 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:48,120 my dear one. I'll be in the kitchen. Sleep now, leap. 217 00:14:56,039 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 5: I don't know how long I slept. When I awoke, 218 00:14:59,039 --> 00:15:01,320 I wandered for a moment where I was, and then 219 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:03,120 I saw her standing over me. 220 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:09,039 Speaker 8: Like a little boy. You sleep. I've been watching you. 221 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 5: You. What are you doing here? 222 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,279 Speaker 8: Watching your sleep? You don't drink beer, and you're afraid 223 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,759 of girls, and you sleep like a little boy. 224 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 5: You followed me here, you brought them? What have you 225 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,120 done with my grandmother? I kill you? I should have 226 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:29,480 killed you then I will, now, friend of the kill you. 227 00:15:31,879 --> 00:15:32,879 Speaker 8: Now here here? 228 00:15:32,919 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 5: What's going on? None? You all right? 229 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 8: Of course, I'm all right. What are you doing, Tony? 230 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:39,799 What is wrong? Oh? 231 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 12: Your grandson has his mother's heart, Italian blood in his veins. 232 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 8: He wants to kill me, that's all. I'm ashamed of you, Donaldo. 233 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,200 This girl, she's a friend. 234 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 5: Friend. 235 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 8: I will get the soup for you, Senora Apail. Perhaps 236 00:15:55,399 --> 00:15:57,320 some soup will cool his temper. 237 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 5: But none I saw that girl with the Germans. 238 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 8: She she told me about that. She did not know 239 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,279 who you were then, yes, but she wondered why you 240 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:07,919 disappeared from her father's house. 241 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 13: She knew the name Donald Harper because she heard me 242 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,559 speak of you often, so she came here after you. 243 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 5: Now she saw. 244 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:20,399 Speaker 8: You sleep, and she understood why you had run away 245 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:20,840 from her. 246 00:16:20,919 --> 00:16:24,159 Speaker 5: She was with Germans. I was there. I heard girl. 247 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 13: Donaldo is the leader of our group of parisons, your leader. 248 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:31,759 Speaker 5: But the Germans. 249 00:16:31,759 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 8: Side the Germans, I amuse them, Porky, and may I 250 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:38,879 tell them funny stories and they laugh at me. 251 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:39,519 Speaker 5: You just soup. 252 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 14: They did not hear me laugh when I get them drunk, 253 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:45,039 and they tell me things I can use to our advantage. 254 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 8: Your soup. 255 00:16:46,919 --> 00:16:51,399 Speaker 5: Drink it, Tony, I'm sorry, I understand. 256 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,159 Speaker 8: Yea bella quest gatta Donaldo? 257 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:58,679 Speaker 5: No, yes, no, the girl is very poor, Senor. 258 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:07,559 Speaker 14: Telling you embarrassing, Naldo. We have friends now, see see 259 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,680 Tony friends. 260 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 8: You work too hard, Cameo. 261 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 5: What are you doing drawing diagrams? Nana. I've got all 262 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:29,759 the plans made to blow up that highway early tomorrow morning, 263 00:17:29,759 --> 00:17:31,720 and I want to make sure nothing goes wrong here. 264 00:17:32,519 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 8: I brought you something to eat. 265 00:17:34,559 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 5: You will spoil me, Nana, But it was good to 266 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,519 have you spoiled me again these past few days. 267 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,079 Speaker 13: How good it is to be able to Will you 268 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:49,559 leave then tomorrow after you do what you have to do? 269 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:53,559 Speaker 5: Yes, I must, but I'll come back to say goodbye. First, 270 00:17:55,759 --> 00:17:59,720 I come, I come, Joe suh? 271 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 8: Where's Donaldo? 272 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 5: Tony? What are you doing here? 273 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 8: Are you displeased to see me? 274 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,039 Speaker 5: Where is that partisan friend you are going to send 275 00:18:09,039 --> 00:18:11,400 to help me here? What? Me? 276 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:11,839 Speaker 8: Me? 277 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:12,039 Speaker 1: Me? 278 00:18:12,039 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 14: Me? 279 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 5: Me? I am the friend. Oh no, I. 280 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,519 Speaker 8: Can't do as good a job as any man. Let 281 00:18:17,559 --> 00:18:18,119 me help you. 282 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:19,519 Speaker 5: No, no, it's crazy. 283 00:18:19,559 --> 00:18:21,799 Speaker 8: Please please let me do it. 284 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 5: Girl, it's crazy, It is not crazy. 285 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 8: Think think what it will mean for me after you 286 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,480 were gone from these mountains. 287 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 14: Listening to my fat friends the Germans talk about the explosion, 288 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:34,200 and to. 289 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 8: Know secretly that it was I who helped to make it. 290 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,440 Please please Tonaldo Meal. 291 00:18:43,519 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 5: It's too late to get anyone else. 292 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:48,839 Speaker 8: That's why I waited so long. 293 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:52,319 Speaker 10: The only man to get on this short notice is 294 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,400 my papa, and he is a scared rabbit. 295 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 5: That was right the first time. You are a little 296 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:58,000 sheet evil. 297 00:18:58,039 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 8: What's take her with Youaldo. 298 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 5: All right, then pay attention to this diagram. Now there's 299 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,599 a railway, as you know, going right over that highway. 300 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,680 If we planned enough DNT to blow that right out 301 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:23,880 of the road, it'll be blocked up for months. It 302 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,720 was about four o'clock in the morning when we got 303 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,480 to the highway and climbed up on the tracks of 304 00:19:27,519 --> 00:19:30,319 the railway. Tony stayed up above, and I made my 305 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,880 way slowly, slowly, climbing down into the framework of the trestle, 306 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:37,400 feeling my way along the girders. They were icy under 307 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,720 my hands, and two or three times I almost slipped. 308 00:19:40,039 --> 00:19:46,000 Cavl Careful, it's all right. Watch yourself, watch how you 309 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:47,200 handle those explosives. 310 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 8: Do not trouble yourself about me. I told you I 311 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,319 can work as well as any. 312 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: Man, and work as quietly as one. The troop crane 313 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,240 of Germans would be coming over the railway soon, and 314 00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:59,599 I had to finish before it came. I had a 315 00:19:59,599 --> 00:20:01,480 coil of wire around one arm and a pair of 316 00:20:01,519 --> 00:20:05,480 plyers hanging on a thong for my waist. Tony, you 317 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:08,400 hear me, yes, I hear you. Hand me down those 318 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:14,480 packages of explosives, one at a time. Here here you are, 319 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:19,000 all right? Die. I shoved them in where I wanted them, 320 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:24,480 packed them close, Tony, the wedges quickly. Don't be so 321 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,079 slow about it. 322 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,799 Speaker 8: I'm doing it as fast as I can, all right. 323 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 5: I lashed the grenade on top of the braced explosives, 324 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,039 wound it tight with a wire, twisted it with plyers. 325 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,799 Finally I was finished. There was snow on the ground, 326 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,599 and yet my shirt was wet with perspiration. All right, 327 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,599 last finishing touch. That does it for this side, Tony. 328 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,480 Now let's get to the other side. 329 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 8: See, give me your flyers before you drop. 330 00:20:53,960 --> 00:21:03,319 Speaker 9: Okay, I have helped you much this far. 331 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 5: See see you've helped me much. 332 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,559 Speaker 8: Let me do it. 333 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,799 Speaker 5: No, No, we haven't any time to argue. That train 334 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:22,799 will be along any minute. 335 00:21:22,839 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 8: Please please let me set off the explosion. Let me 336 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,960 have that pleasure. I will follow your directions. I will 337 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,200 do it just the way you told me. 338 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,279 Speaker 5: No, but training, it's coming. 339 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 8: Just tell me when to pull it. 340 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,599 Speaker 5: All right, you win, But Heaven help you if you 341 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,839 make a mistake. Hold it now, steady and don't pull 342 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:42,559 on the wire yet. 343 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 14: I will pull it softly, softly, lightly but firm. 344 00:21:51,599 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 5: Here she comes, pull it. 345 00:22:14,519 --> 00:22:18,759 Speaker 8: Nada, it's done, and I pulled the wires in your. 346 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:20,599 Speaker 10: Anna. 347 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 5: What is it? 348 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 8: It is nothing. 349 00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:29,519 Speaker 13: These attacks come on after water quick. 350 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 8: I will stay with her. Thanado, You must leave quickly. 351 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 5: No, I'll stay. 352 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:33,039 Speaker 2: You go on. 353 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 8: This section will be swarming with soldiers after what we've just. 354 00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 5: Done, and if they find you, they'll wonder what you're 355 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:38,200 doing here. 356 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 8: Men do not know how to take care of the sick. 357 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,160 I will stay and help you. 358 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,039 Speaker 5: All right, get the water. 359 00:22:56,279 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 8: You should not have stayed, done me. I would have 360 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:02,319 been all. 361 00:23:02,279 --> 00:23:05,599 Speaker 5: Right, don't talk, just rest. What is it? 362 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 8: Germans come into this house. I can see from the window. 363 00:23:08,279 --> 00:23:10,640 Oh no, no, no, you should have gone before. 364 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,039 Speaker 5: Not wait. 365 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 8: No, it's all right, Donald, do this one thing more 366 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:15,640 more for me. 367 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 5: I won't leave while you hould them off for me. 368 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:18,440 Is that what you want? 369 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:20,839 Speaker 8: I know them. I am a favorite of their. Please 370 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,440 got a meal. You can escape and do more important work, 371 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,119 and I will not be harmed if I stay. 372 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 5: Beies son, escape escape. 373 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,319 Speaker 8: There is still time. The girl knows them upstairs, upstairs. 374 00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 14: They may be around the back too, So go upstairs, 375 00:23:34,839 --> 00:23:36,440 jump from the window to the roof of the barn. 376 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:37,519 Speaker 8: You can make it for me. 377 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,079 Speaker 5: No, Tony, go, go go, I say, promise, not to 378 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:40,640 turn back. 379 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 8: Promise. 380 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 5: I ran up the stairs to the tiny attic. I 381 00:23:55,279 --> 00:23:57,519 heard the door close downstairs, so I knew they had 382 00:23:57,559 --> 00:24:00,200 come in. I could distinguish their voices too, though I 383 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,680 couldn't hear a word they were saying. I opened the 384 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,720 window and saw it was an easy jump to the roof. 385 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,720 Then Tony screamed, and I forgot my promise to her 386 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,720 and went back, flattened myself against the wall at the 387 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,640 head of the staircase. 388 00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 2: I do not. 389 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 15: Take care of what you need. 390 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 5: You're always am when you come and talking the truth alone, 391 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:42,119 I beg I surprised the first German when I jumped him, 392 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:44,240 brought the butt of my guy down on his head 393 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,240 again and again. But the other German was not so 394 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:49,240 simple a manner. 395 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:54,839 Speaker 8: Right. 396 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,279 Speaker 5: He had my shoulders down and I couldn't move. Then 397 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,359 then I saw Tony standing over us, a heavy candele 398 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:12,240 oprum in her hand. For good work, Tony, Now listen 399 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,039 to me, cavally, Tony, take my grandmother back to your house. 400 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,319 No one will know you were here. Your father's question. 401 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,559 You tell them my grandmother was here alone. When someone 402 00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:23,440 a stranger took refuge here and killed the officers who came. 403 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,759 Then she went to your house because she was afraid. Well, 404 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,960 will you remember that all of it? 405 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,559 Speaker 10: Will you be back? 406 00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 8: Will I ever see you again? 407 00:25:33,319 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 5: Who knows? Perhaps perhaps Colleena Collina, my dear little tom. 408 00:25:44,039 --> 00:26:02,599 Speaker 16: Now go go quickly she did wanted. That's everything that 409 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,519 my way here. 410 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 5: You will hide me if they come, You will do 411 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:14,240 what I can for you. What's right? If you're coming 412 00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:16,359 in like this breaking down the door, not make problem 413 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:33,240 on you. It's all right, Padre, It's all right. No, no, no, 414 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,960 you're mistaken. My name is not Donald Harper. I'm an 415 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,559 Italian soldier. I was lost in the snow. My papers 416 00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:43,440 are gone and comes. This is tiresome. Admit it. You 417 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,960 are the American who blew up the highway. Answer you 418 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,079 are mistaken, heir, holp man you are. 419 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 17: We will see Pata sand in the old man your help. 420 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,039 Speaker 9: See see I come, I come, I. 421 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 17: Uhhh, you'll recognize him. I see exchalenting here. What is 422 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,480 this man's name? Be Hi stre Ha half for Donald Harper. 423 00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:11,799 The senor is an American. No, I have told you 424 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:14,240 you will let the loon see you have talked in Afternna. 425 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 9: You will leave my daughter and me alone, and the 426 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,400 old lady too, now that I have told you we 427 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:19,720 have done nothing to do with it. 428 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but you will not tell. 429 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 9: My daughter, you promise. Remember she has a soft heart 430 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:25,440 and wou distress. 431 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 5: Take him away, you will. 432 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 9: Lets see see, we are on your spy lawyer. 433 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 5: You have nothing to say. Everything has been said for me. 434 00:27:38,599 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 17: That highway has been completely destroyed. I'm delighted to hear 435 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,000 it that many loyal soldiers as I have been killed. 436 00:27:44,319 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 5: Well, thank you for telling me. And what is more, 437 00:27:46,799 --> 00:27:48,279 you are in Italian uniform. 438 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 17: A spy bullets are too good to waste on you American, 439 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:59,759 but a rope can be used again. Tatant yah Hartman, 440 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:14,119 take this man out and hang him, but I cannot 441 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,240 do you well, do as you are told her doctor. 442 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 5: Here is the death certificate of the American who was 443 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,000 hanged this morning. Sign it and. 444 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,319 Speaker 2: The cause of death you want, and I should ride. 445 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:30,599 Speaker 5: As I told you, just as I told you, heart 446 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:33,440 failure pty. 447 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 3: Some weeks later, two retreating German battalions found their escape 448 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,119 through the Brenner Pass blocked. Captain Harper had done his 449 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,240 job well and the on rushing American troops caught the 450 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:59,920 enemy with their backs to a mountain. Though Donald Harper 451 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,279 did not live to see victory, he shared in it, 452 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,279 and once again the record of an OSS agent closes 453 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,920 with the words mission accomplished. A further adventure in Black 454 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,640 Warfare is next week's. 455 00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:16,759 Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger. 456 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 4: Heard in Today's Clock and Dagger Adventure where Everett Sloane, Hester, Sunderguard, 457 00:29:43,559 --> 00:29:50,400 Barry Kroger, Louis Soren, Virginia Payne, Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, 458 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,960 and Boris Aplin. Script was by Wonnifred Wolf. Music was 459 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:59,000 under the direction of John Guard. Today's True OSS Adventure 460 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:01,759 was based on the book Locandagger by Corey Ford and 461 00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:05,440 Alistair McBain. This has been a Lewis G. Collen production 462 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,799 in association with Alfred Hollander and was under the direction 463 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:16,839 and supervision of Sherman Marx. Stay tuned for the second 464 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,319 Big Mystery High Adventure on NBC. 465 00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. It was an interesting story. Certainly our man 466 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,279 had his flaws, particularly in his reactions to Tony. Of course, 467 00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:36,720 he got over the whole trying to kill her thing 468 00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:40,599 pretty quickly when she explained that paling around with the 469 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,319 Germans and playing herself as a bit of an amusing 470 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,839 peasant was probably the best thing that the leader of 471 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:54,920 the Partisans could do, And despite his misgivings, she handled 472 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,880 herself well in every way, and she had far more 473 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,079 cunning throughout the operation, and in a way, I think 474 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:07,519 he made the same mistake of underestimating her that the 475 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,960 Germans made. Yet despite his mistakes, he got the job 476 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:17,599 done and paid the ultimate price for it. Clokendagger as 477 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,680 an anthology series, had a lot of freedom in its storytelling. 478 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:27,720 Without recurring protagonists, it could run the gamut in the 479 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,559 stories it told, including somewhere the operative lived up to 480 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:39,799 the agreement that they made that's represented at the start 481 00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:44,480 of the episode. The purpose of Clokendagger, the book and 482 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,799 therefore the radio series was not just to tell the 483 00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:52,519 stories of the oss but to help the public understand 484 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:57,519 the importance of what they did and what ordinary individuals 485 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:01,920 accomplished for their country and for the cause of humanity, 486 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,960 and the cost they paid. To really appreciate that, the 487 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:11,279 audience had to understand that these people didn't work with 488 00:32:11,319 --> 00:32:16,240 a net. These are great stories of adventure and danger, 489 00:32:17,039 --> 00:32:19,680 but they were not larks for the men and women 490 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,680 who undertook them. One thing I've been meaning to note 491 00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:28,680 that listeners to the Great Detectives podcast may recognize is 492 00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:32,000 the name of Sherman Marks. You might say, I think 493 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:35,960 I've heard that name before. He's the director of this series. 494 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,400 But we heard him last in the cast as the 495 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:46,359 butler Gabriel Betteridge in the Chicago based World's Great Novel 496 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,119 adaptation of The Moonstone, And if you listen to the 497 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,920 Amazing World of Radio, you also heard him as David 498 00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:00,279 Balfour's evil uncle in the adaptation they did of Kidnap. 499 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,680 But in nineteen fifty was working in New York and 500 00:33:04,119 --> 00:33:07,960 doing some behind the mic work and doing a fine 501 00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:12,240 job and directing this series. Now it's time to thank 502 00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:14,880 our Patreon supporter of the day, and I went ahead 503 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,039 and think Jay Marcus, Patreon supporter since November twenty twenty, 504 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,079 currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of 505 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,240 seven dollars and fourteen or more per month. Thanks so 506 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:28,359 much for your support, Jay Marcus, and that will do 507 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,519 it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow 508 00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:36,240 us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to 509 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,119 rate and review the podcast wherever you're downloading it from. 510 00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:45,720 We'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Cloak 511 00:33:45,759 --> 00:33:49,440 and Dagger. If you are listening to the Great Detectives 512 00:33:49,559 --> 00:33:54,440 podcast that returns on Monday with the Adventures of the Falcon. 513 00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:58,160 If you're listening to the Great Adventurers of Old Time 514 00:33:58,279 --> 00:34:03,640 Radio that returns on Tuesday with the interplanetary Adventures of 515 00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:07,559 Flash Gordon. In the meantime, do you send your comments 516 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,360 to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Check out 517 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:16,360 our website at Great adventure dot info. But from Boise, Idaho, 518 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:19,360 this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.