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Speaker 1: from June eighteenth, nineteen fifty, here is the catching story.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? What you
Speaker 2: have just heard is the question asked during the war
Speaker 2: to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who to this
Speaker 2: question answered yes.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: Clock and Dagger. Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are
Speaker 2: the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure, the Cutchin story
Speaker 2: tells of an agent an American agent dropped behind Japanese
Speaker 2: lines in Burma, a story suggested by actual incidents recorded
Speaker 2: in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services,
Speaker 2: a story that can now be told. The sky hangs
Speaker 2: low over Burner in nineteen forty four. It was more
Speaker 2: than just the smoke and dust haze that blankets in
Speaker 2: the dry season. It was the tension in the air
Speaker 2: that weighed the clouds down so that they almost seemed
Speaker 2: to be pressing against the wings of our plane.
Speaker 4: You gotta reach your objective in a few minutes, Mike good,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you when to hit the cell.
Speaker 2: You got everything, yep, Radio spies, I'm all set. Why
Speaker 2: that's thick jungle down there, thick with Jeff, That's what
Speaker 2: I mean. I looked down on the towering jungle colored
Speaker 2: mountains of North Burma. I thought of the small band
Speaker 2: of Cutching natives who are waiting to meet. I thought
Speaker 2: about how pitifully outnumbered they were behind the enemy lines.
Speaker 2: Now they hated the Japs. And then, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I didn't have time to think anymore. Lousy jet fighter,
Speaker 2: what cloud did he crawl? Too late to run? We're
Speaker 2: in for it.
Speaker 4: Sorry, you're gonna be late for your appointment.
Speaker 2: Brother. What I could do with a tail gunner?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Hold out of your stomach.
Speaker 4: Mic, We're gonna see if I can loop and get
Speaker 4: behind him.
Speaker 2: Hi, he's stilling a tail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looked right behind me.
Speaker 2: He hit or rented. I'm quiet lousy, I swirt. You
Speaker 2: caught him? How better we hit? We all making better?
Speaker 4: Try to belly laugh?
Speaker 2: Can we jump? Hold off for that? Hold on, watch
Speaker 2: those trees. I can't pull her up, bike, I.
Speaker 3: Can't, I can't.
Speaker 2: I was thrown from the plane when we crashed. I
Speaker 2: got off with nothing more than a that was bleeding
Speaker 2: pretty bad. When I crawled back to the wreck, I
Speaker 2: found a pilot. He wasn't so lucky. I started to run.
Speaker 2: I didn't know where I was going, but I started
Speaker 2: to run anyway through the bamboo thickets. My leg was
Speaker 2: throbbing with pain, and I tripped. The pistol dropped out
Speaker 2: of my hoster and disappeared into the high grass. I
Speaker 2: didn't have time to look for it, somewhere to the
Speaker 2: north with the Cutchins. I had to get to them.
Speaker 2: This was headhunter country in those days. Japs paid high
Speaker 2: prices for American scalps. After a while, my breath came up.
Speaker 2: I couldn't go any for them. My imagination put japs
Speaker 2: in headhunters behind every tree. I told myself I had
Speaker 2: to stop. I told myself I didn't have enough wind
Speaker 2: to take another step. I changed my mind when behind
Speaker 2: me I heard a twig snap. There was someone followed,
Speaker 2: a quiet, stealthy someone, and padded cat's feet. I kept
Speaker 2: up running into the river. I didn't bother and looked
Speaker 2: first for crocodiles. A numbness from my bad legs spread
Speaker 2: all over me. I could hardly swim. All I wanted
Speaker 2: to do was get away from that shadow behind me.
Speaker 2: When I reached the opposite shore, I climbed on. It
Speaker 2: was sending part safe, safe, And then I looked back.
Speaker 2: I saw the tireless shadow emerge from the bushes and
Speaker 2: flipped silently across the river on a fallen tree truck.
Speaker 2: My lungs were ready to burst. I pulled myself up
Speaker 2: again and hull over some roots and waited, waited for
Speaker 2: that shadow to catch up with me. I just laid
Speaker 2: there and waited. Okay, okay, you win. Where do we
Speaker 2: go from here? I'll say something. I'll just stand there.
Speaker 2: I probably won't be able to understand you, but say
Speaker 2: something anyway. I half to make of warrior just stood
Speaker 2: there staring at me, saying nothing. I hadn't given anything
Speaker 2: to have having a gun back again, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden I did. He just reached down and handed
Speaker 2: it to me. Hey, I I don't get it. What's that?
Speaker 2: What's that cad? You hold? Follow this guide? He will
Speaker 2: lead you to safety.
Speaker 3: Well, well, now you're talking, sure, And you couldn't look
Speaker 3: more surprised, Captain, than if the tall grass potted and
Speaker 3: you came on a field of fall leaf clovers. I
Speaker 3: feel that my father, like you, turned over a stone
Speaker 3: and there we were.
Speaker 2: What's about it? I thought that night of following him
Speaker 2: it was a head hunter. I know they'd turned any
Speaker 2: American over. The Japs were a two pound bag of salt.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're right there on the holy savages that they are.
Speaker 3: We saw your plane fall, and I sent you here
Speaker 3: after you with that message written on the card.
Speaker 2: He's the fastest runner in the Kutchin village.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry he puts such's care into you. Oh forgive me, Captain,
Speaker 3: say did I pull the bandage too tightly?
Speaker 2: Then? No, No, that's okay. I don't want it too much.
Speaker 2: When I think it would have happened to the pilot.
Speaker 2: I was lucky. Yes, it was a pitchy about the
Speaker 2: pilots Ying. This is if you don't mind. Thank you.
Speaker 3: There now almost don't now. Then we'll go out and
Speaker 3: you will meet the villages. The women have prepared a
Speaker 3: special banquet for you, and that's very nice in them.
Speaker 2: Have you been a missionary here in Burma? Long father?
Speaker 2: For almost twelve years now? I hardly remember any other life.
Speaker 3: These good natives have all become sons and daughters to me.
Speaker 3: We've taught each other. I speak their language. They all
Speaker 3: speak English. Now I do as well as I almost.
Speaker 3: Then I have a question, father, Yes I'll come. Ying
Speaker 3: over there took ten years off my life, chased me
Speaker 3: through the jungle. Why didn't he say something? Well, Ying
Speaker 3: didn't speak to your captain Shay because he wasn't able to.
Speaker 3: He was a prisoner of the Japanese some time ago.
Speaker 3: They cut out his tongue, that other all of bandage. Pleasing,
Speaker 3: thank you you, Colleen. Put more wine in the bamboo
Speaker 3: cup for our guest.
Speaker 5: Yes, I will be happy to here you are.
Speaker 2: What did you call her? Father, Colleen?
Speaker 3: To make it easier for me, I've renamed many of
Speaker 3: the villagers. That woman stirring the big Kettler's Kathleen and
Speaker 3: the other beside her bridget I get.
Speaker 2: The general idea.
Speaker 3: And your name is shay Ah Mike say a good
Speaker 3: Irish nahorbo?
Speaker 2: I ever heard one? Well, actually, father, it's Michael Chicaalnikov.
Speaker 2: Would you mind repeating that Chicagnikov? It's Polish, I shorten
Speaker 2: because everybody has trouble pronouncing. Sometimes I have trouble myself
Speaker 2: spelling them.
Speaker 3: I see, well, no matter, no matter. Tell me more
Speaker 3: about your mission.
Speaker 2: When I was sent by the OSS to establish radio contact, father,
Speaker 2: with the Northern Area Combat Command in Burman, give them
Speaker 2: any information and help by CAM. That is, with your help,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: A well, you'll find us of great assistance immediately after
Speaker 3: the bank which you can find a place to set
Speaker 3: up your radio.
Speaker 2: How are you enjoying? You mean? My wife never made
Speaker 2: anything of taste it like this? Did you like it? Well?
Speaker 2: Let me feel your plate some more. Thanks, that's very good.
Speaker 2: H What is it we make it?
Speaker 5: I sure for you today, white bee sweep boy for hours.
Speaker 2: Uh, I guess I've had enough. I don't feel right
Speaker 2: moving you out of your het, father.
Speaker 3: Gosh, quite all right, I can easily find another basher.
Speaker 2: This is the best spot for your radio.
Speaker 3: I'll even leave you the decorations on the walls to
Speaker 3: inspire you.
Speaker 2: Ginger Rogers, that's your favorite pin up? Well, she's a
Speaker 2: fair lass, all right. She brightens up the basher with
Speaker 2: your permission. Then I'll stick a snapchat of my wife
Speaker 2: up with the rest of these pictures. And that does it.
Speaker 2: You know when I think of my wife, will Phil
Speaker 2: little guilty? Why is that? Micheon? Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I thought of her going blind, squeezing all the nose
Speaker 2: from home in the female were in a self sick
Speaker 2: about me and all the time I never felt more
Speaker 2: free in my life. Hey, I know just what you mean.
Speaker 3: I love this life in the jungle as well as
Speaker 3: the people, my people here. I don't think I could
Speaker 3: ever leave now, check bitter By, Do you mind if
Speaker 3: I call you?
Speaker 2: Oh, Shay, No, not at all, father, O do them?
Speaker 2: Not at all? This jungle home was a far cry
Speaker 2: from a third four walk up in New York and
Speaker 2: the job behind the desk in the insurance office. The
Speaker 2: Cutching Warriors aren't imposing figures. The short squat with long
Speaker 2: matted hair and teeth worn to a black stub by beetlenut.
Speaker 2: They led a simple village life, eating rice, trapping wild pigs,
Speaker 2: the technique they also used in trapping wild Japs. But
Speaker 2: they were friendly, happy people, and life for them it's pleasant.
Speaker 2: Until one afternoon when a report came in on the radio.
Speaker 6: North Area Combat Command to Agent chakaal Nikov.
Speaker 2: Agian chakol Nikov of the OSS to North Area Combat Command,
Speaker 2: you're coming in clear A waiting message come in over Capture.
Speaker 6: Of jungle town of Mitchina and its airstrip is vital
Speaker 6: to aid a light advance in Burma. Battalions of American
Speaker 6: marauders will attempt capture. They will rely on your help
Speaker 6: to get them through the jungle. Over Agient Chicolonnikov. The
Speaker 6: headquarters have small band of Cutchins organized. We will do
Speaker 6: what we can. A waiting further instructions over Other native
Speaker 6: armies under OSS leadership have been alerted. Stand by, stand by.
Speaker 6: This is imperative.
Speaker 2: Over and out, Oh, father tool, I didn't see who
Speaker 2: standing there? You heard? I heard Oshi. This is a
Speaker 2: big push all right. That airport at Mitchener could mean
Speaker 2: success of failure the whole American campaign. Burman, We'll get
Speaker 2: our warriors ready. In the meantime, there's nothing we can
Speaker 2: do but wait for orders. That's always the worst part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 7: Wait quite quite, my children, Quite now, Jesus, I have
Speaker 7: told you, when the order comes from the Americans, we
Speaker 7: will advance upon the enemy.
Speaker 2: We leave now, father, catch enemy ourselves.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, that's not the way we must work.
Speaker 2: From now on. The American will be our leader. We
Speaker 2: will do as he says. We will follow Captain or shame.
Speaker 6: North area. Comeback command to Aged Chakalnikov in Burma. A
Speaker 6: battalion of marauders on the way to Minchina has been
Speaker 6: caught off from the main body of the column and
Speaker 6: lost in the jungle.
Speaker 2: Radio contact. Gone find them and supply reinforcements. Overt Asian
Speaker 2: Chakhonakov the headquarters. We'll do the best we can. Over
Speaker 2: not well, we've waited two weeks for an assignment, but
Speaker 2: when it came it was a beauty.
Speaker 3: Well, the problem oshe is locating that battalion. Now it
Speaker 3: occurs to me, yes, yes, father, it occurs to me
Speaker 3: that if they're surrounded by the Japanese somewhere in the jungle.
Speaker 3: The Japanese themselves would know exactly where that spot is.
Speaker 2: Father, I don't get you.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a Japanese beople wacked less than six miles
Speaker 3: from here. They're are undoubtedly Japanese high command who have
Speaker 3: the information we're after.
Speaker 2: I've got you now, father, But one of the scouts
Speaker 2: can with me to show me the way with the jungle.
Speaker 2: We'll sneak into that JAP camp and bring one of
Speaker 2: the officers back with us here. Lor sure sure to
Speaker 2: who my neighbors will liably get caught. Just a couple
Speaker 2: of us can make it all right.
Speaker 3: Wait till the moon is halfway across the sky, then
Speaker 3: go and the Lord go with you.
Speaker 2: When the moon was halfway across the sky, the scout
Speaker 2: and I set out back through the jungle I had
Speaker 2: come from. Only this time I was a shadow too,
Speaker 2: slipping behind the bamboo thickets, cutting my way through a
Speaker 2: dense jungle foliage. We didn't talk much, only what was necessary.
Speaker 8: JAP camp, Claw, Jack camp there ahead, she so bushes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, And those fires lit must be some
Speaker 2: kind of a power going on.
Speaker 8: Sent there were finger point Yeah, yeah, I see it.
Speaker 8: We will surprise and sneak in camp. I'm there behind,
Speaker 8: not duck guy, not tuck nice being many chap okay
Speaker 8: through the bushes, follow me, Watch for.
Speaker 2: Snakes that your worry about? What about the time? It's
Speaker 2: wild boards, commodo lizards?
Speaker 8: What a snake?
Speaker 2: Snick? Your move is? Strike? What do we do? Can
Speaker 2: you get them? With a stick? A rock? Gun? Best gun?
Speaker 2: The hearers gun best rock? No good, stick, no good.
Speaker 2: If I miss, you.
Speaker 8: Would die then none bomb.
Speaker 2: And I stood there like somebody who can froze, dumb
Speaker 2: and stiff. My heart was pounding like a jungle tom tom.
Speaker 2: If he killed the snake, the Japs were sure to
Speaker 2: come running. If he didn't. He raised his gun, slow slow.
Speaker 2: The snake was swaying back and forth, that snake much debt.
Speaker 2: He killed him, all right? If we didn't have time
Speaker 2: to escape back into the foliage. After that, nothing's there
Speaker 2: on my mind. For Jap's all around us, yelling like crazy,
Speaker 2: and lots of guns going, and the cutching scouts fell
Speaker 2: flat on his face dead. Then somebody buttered me from
Speaker 2: behind with a pistol, and the moon went out of
Speaker 2: the heavens and the sky that hangs low over Burma
Speaker 2: came down and hit him her face.
Speaker 9: Wake up, American, wake up?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh my head.
Speaker 10: I am kind of Hiji of Japanese High Command. I
Speaker 10: regret that we were forced to render you such stormy.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Colonel Hiati Eh, you speak English pretty well.
Speaker 10: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CHLUSS thirty seven.
Speaker 2: The wed Clinton High School, the Bronx class of thirty three.
Speaker 2: We will get along well.
Speaker 10: I think if we make a little trade.
Speaker 2: What kind of a trade you're right for?
Speaker 10: Little information? I see the American marauders. I want to
Speaker 10: know the numbers, their positions, their objective.
Speaker 2: I don't know. If I did, I wouldn't tell you God.
Speaker 10: That whip was simple. We have much more in store
Speaker 10: for you. If you do not agree to be more
Speaker 10: agreeable to our simple requests. I give you twenty four
Speaker 10: hours to take it o by American.
Speaker 2: The hot they threw me under was small and dark.
Speaker 2: There was a sentry posted at the entrance. What I
Speaker 2: remember most about those twenty four hours was the heat. Wet,
Speaker 2: sticky heat that made my skin crawl and my lips dry.
Speaker 2: It was a cute tricketing in my tea graduate class
Speaker 2: of thirty seven to let the water drip from a
Speaker 2: pipe right outside the barred window. After a while, it
Speaker 2: begins to get you when you're thirsty.
Speaker 10: Yo, get up, Get up, Canna I eat it?
Speaker 2: See you now? Up? American?
Speaker 6: Up?
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay, get your hands off me. What's that stampede? Stampede? Even?
Speaker 3: Oh god, that's one less Japanese to what is the
Speaker 3: true where you come from? What is this? No time
Speaker 3: for long explanations now, lad They out numbered as fifty
Speaker 3: to one, and we needed heavy ammunition.
Speaker 2: Elephant with the heaviest we could fight. Yeah, but how
Speaker 2: to tell.
Speaker 3: When you didn't come back? I sent a run out.
Speaker 3: We found the body of this guy. Come, we must
Speaker 3: leave now.
Speaker 2: But the information I came to get, oh that we'll
Speaker 2: take it with us. Cutching warriors in this village have
Speaker 2: a grudge against your people, Colonel Hayachi, Maybe you can
Speaker 2: tell us why.
Speaker 10: You cannot frighten me American. You'll get no information from me.
Speaker 10: Shoes on the other foot, now, huh.
Speaker 2: So it would seem ying I'd like you to meet
Speaker 2: Ying Colonel haih Some months ago, he was a Japanese prisoner.
Speaker 2: His tongue was cut out. I'm gonna turn you over
Speaker 2: the ying No no, he can ask your questions his
Speaker 2: own way. Go on take him no, no, no, no, get
Speaker 2: you away from me. I will tell you what you
Speaker 2: want to know.
Speaker 3: I won't tell you why we have surround and lost,
Speaker 3: but tell you I tell you where they are.
Speaker 2: That's more like. It's not talk. Warriors got ready to attack,
Speaker 2: and a great holiday spirit took over the village.
Speaker 5: But we must come. We always come oshe when our
Speaker 5: warriors go ambush Japanese.
Speaker 2: But this is crazy. I can't have a lot of
Speaker 2: women and kids and old men tagging along. We go,
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 5: Old men carry fintlock muzzle loader. Women we do our
Speaker 5: job or so now wait a minute. When battle finish,
Speaker 5: women cook, big party, somebody dear.
Speaker 2: Monkey me what and serve a pipe and hot in
Speaker 2: the front lines. Nothing doing. I'm gonna see father, oa't
Speaker 2: tool about this. You have your problems.
Speaker 10: I have my no say, But we can't let that
Speaker 10: whole tribe come along. This isn't kids play. They'll come
Speaker 10: with your life be pure or not?
Speaker 3: Ohay, they always do in the mean boy, look at
Speaker 3: my predicament. John soner shait.
Speaker 2: And stole me false teeth. What an't I to do
Speaker 2: without your tea? Father oat tool? Please? We have much
Speaker 2: time I eat. You gave us a map. We know
Speaker 2: where the marauders and the Gap attackers are, but we
Speaker 2: won't do them any could just sitting here. I'm not
Speaker 2: just sitting here, Chay. I'm trying to find me teeth.
Speaker 2: The whole village went along, whether I liked it or not,
Speaker 2: and Father Road too came along too without teeth. The
Speaker 2: Cutching warrior n the black trails of the jungle as
Speaker 2: well as I knew forty second street. Ying' seemed to
Speaker 2: be the leader, and he met us through a little
Speaker 2: known passes along hidden underbrush, closer and closer than the
Speaker 2: spot where we know the Japs had the American battalion
Speaker 2: cut off helpless, just what they wanted them. No one
Speaker 2: made a sound, and Ying held up his hand. What
Speaker 2: is it? Ying?
Speaker 3: This junction of the two trails. He's not sure which
Speaker 3: one to take. That's itching, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Madam's split up half. Let's go one way?
Speaker 3: No no, no, they're on to no pu.
Speaker 2: The cutcheons have their own methods. Where is Ying pointing
Speaker 2: at me?
Speaker 3: He's given you the honor of contributing the hair from
Speaker 3: your head. The hair from your head. Here, let me
Speaker 3: have one. Ah, thank you, hideyo ying.
Speaker 2: Why's he throwing it on the ground.
Speaker 3: We'll go in the direction to hair points.
Speaker 11: It's not very scientific, but g tar rage works. Ah,
Speaker 11: it points to the right. We'll go to the right,
Speaker 11: the right, father told the dead word. There are the chaps,
Speaker 11: and there were the marauders down here to those foxhorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're surrounded or right for it as so when
Speaker 2: if they held out this long?
Speaker 3: Our business there needs to attack the enemy from the
Speaker 3: rear and give them a tiding.
Speaker 2: A chance to hit back. We can't attack them. There's
Speaker 2: too many of them. We'll have to ambush. Hey, he's true.
Speaker 12: For me, I had my teeth, or you could think better.
Speaker 2: Gin, some of you others come here, listen. Our only
Speaker 2: chance is to draw them off from the left. Is
Speaker 2: a clearing name. They'll give the marauders a chance to
Speaker 2: get out of them and circlement.
Speaker 10: He says, chaps, Oh, here we set trapped with them.
Speaker 10: That's the idea, Panji, we like pang pangy.
Speaker 2: What's that? Hey, you want to trap?
Speaker 3: Said what he'd about witness the cutcheons secret weapon.
Speaker 2: What are they doing?
Speaker 3: Their wit and goes bamboo pooge to sharp pors. Then
Speaker 3: they'll stick to them with the slangs beneath the underbrush.
Speaker 3: I'll need to show you to the trade. When the
Speaker 3: enemy passes our war is your ployer and the Japanese
Speaker 3: a dive to the sides.
Speaker 2: I get it and cut themselves to ribbons. Very affect,
Speaker 2: very quitted. The natives work quickly, the women helping them
Speaker 2: whittle a bamboo to raising points. When everything was ready,
Speaker 2: I took a few of them unto the left flank
Speaker 2: and we fired, and they ran right into our trap.
Speaker 2: Very effective, not se critter. I committed mass harry carry
Speaker 2: all along the trail. That's all there was to it,
Speaker 2: And I never thought we'd get out of those foxholes alive.
Speaker 2: Captain Chichonikov, thanks helping us chase the rest of the
Speaker 2: chaps off. I'm glad we got to help. Major. The
Speaker 2: cutcheons will lead you to the rest of the Whites
Speaker 2: through the jungle so you can rejoin the main body
Speaker 2: of your column. Can we leave now? Oh?
Speaker 3: No, Major, The women would be in shirted hundred in
Speaker 3: the battle table. Visual preparing the victory fish.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure of themselves.
Speaker 3: The good wives, they have confidence in their husbands. The
Speaker 3: feast is ready. They're even dressed for it.
Speaker 2: Worry that blows in their hair and everything all dressed up.
Speaker 3: One of them may show a dressed Colleen comb here, yes, father,
Speaker 3: don't you? Yes?
Speaker 2: Father me? What do you got around your neck? Well?
Speaker 5: I bow for the victim.
Speaker 2: My fag teeth.
Speaker 3: Now you find yourself another neglition. Give them back story?
Speaker 2: No, then I have nothing, say Colleen. Listen to me. Here,
Speaker 2: he's something prettier. My shop. Shoot is meted shot shoot
Speaker 2: mm hmm. Every American soldier has one to give the
Speaker 2: previous girling meats. Would you like it? So shiny?
Speaker 5: Driven? Pretty too? Father too?
Speaker 2: You have back your.
Speaker 3: Teeth, Captain Shikarnikov, you're worthy of the name of war shame.
Speaker 2: The capture of the vital airstrip and the ultimate conquest
Speaker 2: of Mitchener was due to the combined efforts of the
Speaker 2: marauders who attacked it and the Kuchin warriors who helped
Speaker 2: them and harass the enemy all along the way. And
Speaker 2: once more, the report of an OSS agent closes with
Speaker 2: the words mission accomplished. A further Adventure in Black Warfare
Speaker 2: is next week's Cloak and Dagger. Heard in Today's Cloak
Speaker 2: and Dagger Adventure where Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Bill Quinn, Joe,
Speaker 2: Julian Everett Sloan Inga Adams, Jackson Beck and Jerry Jarrett.
Speaker 2: The script was written by Winterfred Wolf and Jack Gordon.
Speaker 2: Music was under the direction of John Gart. Today's True
Speaker 2: Oss Adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger
Speaker 2: by Cory Ford and Allister McBain. This has been a
Speaker 2: Lewis G. Kahn production in association with Alfred Hollander and
Speaker 2: was under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx Robert Warren.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to be fair to father O'Toole. It's hard
Speaker 1: to focus on anything if you're missing something important to you,
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine trying to go about my business
Speaker 1: while missing my teeth. Kudos to the actor for portraying
Speaker 1: that point and being as consistent as possible in showing
Speaker 1: how Father O'Toole was struggling to talk without his teeth,
Speaker 1: and Father O'Toole is probably one of the wider characters
Speaker 1: we've heard. Though certainly not strictly comic relief, this story
Speaker 1: brought home the painful reality of Japanese war crimes and
Speaker 1: crimes against humanity during the Second World War and the
Speaker 1: period leading up to it, which are not nearly as
Speaker 1: well remembered as those committed by the Germans, but were
Speaker 1: still on a horrific scale between nineteen and thirty million
Speaker 1: dead in an eighteen year period of Imperial Japanese aggression,
Speaker 1: including Japanese civilians, prisoners of war, and native population. And
Speaker 1: even beyond deaths, there were many degradations, torture, inhumane treatments
Speaker 1: by that ruling regime. So this definitely has the ring
Speaker 1: of truth about it. And this is also an interesting
Speaker 1: story just in terms of the mission. It puts Kalishnikov
Speaker 1: in an interesting positions. There are stories and situations based
Speaker 1: on the files from the OSS where they might take
Speaker 1: a stronger hand in directing operations. There was that great
Speaker 1: Jack Web story operation Florida Lee, where he parachuted behind
Speaker 1: enemy lines and found himself worth keen with a ma
Speaker 1: key with no experienced leaders. Here though, he's dealing with
Speaker 1: people who knew what they're doing, but they did things
Speaker 1: in a very different way, and despite coalition to cost protests,
Speaker 1: he had to just get out of their way and
Speaker 1: let them do their thing, really coordinate with, you know,
Speaker 1: with the US action in terms of the timing of
Speaker 1: their operation, but then just let them do their things
Speaker 1: and work as partners. And I think O'Toole helped him
Speaker 1: with that. Listener comments and feedback now and just one
Speaker 1: comment from YouTube, Mark just gave a simple nurse and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Ryan Serr
Speaker 1: made a comment about the music sounding similar to Tales
Speaker 1: of the Texas Rangers, and I think I addressed that
Speaker 1: an episode back, that there's a lot of music reuse
Speaker 1: on these sort of mystery programs on NBC in the
Speaker 1: early nineteen fifties, where a lot of the bridges and
Speaker 1: incidental music get reused from show to show, so that's
Speaker 1: not something that was imagined.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: One other thing, I was kind of thinking about maybe
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