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Speaker 1: August twentieth, nineteen fifty, here is the Norwegian Incident.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy lines? 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. So
Speaker 3: to this question answered yes, This is Cloak and Dagger,
Speaker 3: black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of
Speaker 3: the OSS. Today's adventure Norwegian Incident is suggested by an
Speaker 3: actual incident recorded in the Washington files of the Office
Speaker 3: of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
Speaker 2: It was quite a jump from being an associate professor
Speaker 2: at Wisconsin to the red dust of Camp Rooker. But
Speaker 2: like most of the guys, I just got used to it.
Speaker 2: I got used to the clothes, the food. They let
Speaker 2: me lie in it a while longer. I might even
Speaker 2: have gotten used to that army cut.
Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, Anderson, you awake? How might get up?
Speaker 2: That's what I like about the army. Everybody is so considered.
Speaker 2: I'm on, come on.
Speaker 4: The captain wants to see it. You too, Parillo, Snap
Speaker 4: to it and get your clothes out.
Speaker 2: What's it all about?
Speaker 5: How should I know?
Speaker 2: Ask Private Perillo.
Speaker 6: He's the guy with all the answers.
Speaker 2: What do you do now, Pete? Nothing? The captain wants
Speaker 2: to see us at this time of the night. You
Speaker 2: must have pulled up, beauty. Ah, you are nuts. The captains
Speaker 2: of Palermne probably wants to know if I'm awake.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen, what I'm about to say is confidential, just between
Speaker 3: the three of us. If you refuse my offer, it
Speaker 3: will not be counted against you, nor will it go
Speaker 3: on to your record. I understandswer the Office of Strategic
Speaker 3: Services has requested both of you. Well, I accept, I've
Speaker 3: always jumped to having an normous job with a pretty
Speaker 3: whack for a secretary.
Speaker 2: And I'm afraid you don't understand have a cigarette? Huh? Oh? Thanks.
Speaker 3: You see the job of the OSS is to disrupt
Speaker 3: enemy activity in every way possible, and one of their
Speaker 3: most effective methods is to drop men behind enemy lines.
Speaker 2: Oh, may may I ask why I've been requested? Sir?
Speaker 3: Well, I understand, Corporal Anderson, your parents come from Norway
Speaker 3: and that you speak the language. Yes, sir, I've spent
Speaker 3: most of my last ten summers in Norway.
Speaker 2: But why may I have a tough time with English? Well,
Speaker 2: according to your record for Alow, you were a sandhog.
Speaker 7: Well, yes, and Cervies, I was a demolition expite, so
Speaker 7: naturally the Army put me in the infantry sir, yes, Oh.
Speaker 3: This job is strictly volunteer. If you want me to
Speaker 3: leave you alone for a few minutes.
Speaker 2: I won't be necessary.
Speaker 7: Captain, I should have wiresed that when you give me
Speaker 7: a cigarette, cat and every time I get something for
Speaker 7: nothing from an officer, I end up in trouble.
Speaker 2: Basic training turned out to be a maypole dance compared
Speaker 2: to the grind that the OSS put us through. Since
Speaker 2: we've been kids, the word sportsmanship had been drilled into us. Well,
Speaker 2: the OSS kicked it out. The other team was playing
Speaker 2: dirty pool, and we had to go by their rules.
Speaker 2: Jagged edge of a bottle, stiff fingers in the eye
Speaker 2: and knee, and the groin, the flat of a hand
Speaker 2: across the neck became close friends of ours. We slept
Speaker 2: on the flight across the Atlantic and finally arrived in London.
Speaker 7: Gentlemen, I out, I know a mission, duril. As you
Speaker 7: may have surmised, you're going to Norway. You step over
Speaker 7: to this map.
Speaker 2: What are you saying? Shut up? A pet boat will.
Speaker 7: Take you out tonight. Tonight ours, you will land at
Speaker 7: this point. You know the territory, cap Corporal.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, my family came from a village not far
Speaker 2: from there.
Speaker 7: In steady of these area photographs later, there's plenty of cover.
Speaker 7: Now here is your mission. This red line north to
Speaker 7: the south is the main line of supply. At this
Speaker 7: point there's a bridge which you are to blow up.
Speaker 7: Why that shouldn't be tough blowing it up? No, However,
Speaker 7: five hundred yards from the bridge not here as a
Speaker 7: German company barracks. The bridge is well protected. It's up
Speaker 7: to you to figure out a way to dynamite it.
Speaker 7: We'll aw about our Norwegian contact, who's going to meet us.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 7: When you hit the shore, take cover precisely eleven o'clock
Speaker 7: a man will be strolling down the beach.
Speaker 2: Stop him.
Speaker 7: Ask him how the fishing is. You'll answer not too
Speaker 7: good in winter. From then on you're in his hands.
Speaker 7: You Anderson are his nephew, and you, if you're Illo,
Speaker 7: are his cousin. Yeah, but I can't speak Norwegian. You
Speaker 7: will not say anything. At any time you will be known,
Speaker 7: is the dumb one? What the reason you're call the
Speaker 7: dumb one? Goes back to a childhood disease. Now, goodbye, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: and good luck.
Speaker 2: They flew us to the north of England, hustled us
Speaker 2: on a boat and tore off for the coast of Norway.
Speaker 2: I brief Pete on the terrain, everything I knew about
Speaker 2: the bridge. We studied the photographs and rehearsed the parts
Speaker 2: we were to play. The clothes we were given smelled
Speaker 2: of fish, had been made in Oslo, worn by a
Speaker 2: Norwegian and probably picked up in a hawk shop and
Speaker 2: a bowery. We felt the boat slow down, and Pete
Speaker 2: and I went topside to get our first glimpse of Norway.
Speaker 8: Well this is as close as we can get, gentlemen.
Speaker 8: Now one of my men will row you the rest
Speaker 8: of the way and return with the boat.
Speaker 2: That's just dandy. How do we get back?
Speaker 8: According to my orders, you have five days to do
Speaker 8: your job. On the fifth and sixth nights, we will
Speaker 8: return at oh two hundred fifth and six nights. You
Speaker 8: will signal us from the beach with a flashlight, you
Speaker 8: know the signal. We can stay no longer than ten minutes.
Speaker 2: I suppose we can't meganon in time. What then, I
Speaker 2: hope you can. Where's the dynamite? You're standing right next
Speaker 2: to it. Those brows are full of fish.
Speaker 8: Yes, the top two layers. The rest of the fish
Speaker 8: have been gutted and filled with plastic containers of dynamite
Speaker 8: in case you are stopped. Don't worry about the fish.
Speaker 8: They were caught here last night, packed in ice and
Speaker 8: flow into England and they're still nice and fresh.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't blow up the bridge, we can at
Speaker 2: least open up a fish, or let's go. We didn't
Speaker 2: look back as we rode to the shore. We listened
Speaker 2: to the waves hitting the beach. We listened to the
Speaker 2: stillness that seemed to surround all of Norway. We beached
Speaker 2: the boat, pile our dynamite behind some bushes, and.
Speaker 7: Waited, what time is an energy? It's about five minutes
Speaker 7: past eleven. Joe was supposed to be here at eleven.
Speaker 7: You'll get here supposingly don't make it?
Speaker 2: Then? What I've got enough rations for five days. We'll
Speaker 2: figure out something.
Speaker 7: You know, they shoot guys who don't wear a uniform
Speaker 7: behind the enemy lines.
Speaker 2: Somebody is scared. Yeah, so what so am I? What
Speaker 2: times are now? Can't be more than ten? After you
Speaker 2: gotta hold an't I coming down the shore here? I
Speaker 2: assume you stay back in these bushes and keep me covered.
Speaker 2: I'll work his back toward you if I get in
Speaker 2: any trouble. You know what to do? Yeah, I studied
Speaker 2: real hard luck. Thanks, good evening, sir, good evening, and
Speaker 2: night night dark but pleasant. Tell me how is they
Speaker 2: fishing around here? Not too good in winter? And comeuppy.
Speaker 2: It is good to see you. My name is My
Speaker 2: name is Anderson. This is my partner pete fella.
Speaker 9: You welcome to Norway, mister Anderson, and to you Captain.
Speaker 7: Really saying I'm gonna like this country. The promotions come
Speaker 7: real quick. Understand you're to lead us to a place
Speaker 7: where we can hide.
Speaker 9: That is true. My home is safe. Before the past
Speaker 9: ten days, my nephews have been visiting me every night.
Speaker 9: They come down to fish and returned with two barrels.
Speaker 9: We won't have too much trouble. What can I trouble?
Speaker 9: You expect? On the road back we must pass a
Speaker 9: German sentry too often to be exact. However, you look
Speaker 9: like my nephew Silk.
Speaker 2: Won't you run into trouble having four nephews walking around you?
Speaker 9: No, no, the other to lift by sea before you arrived.
Speaker 9: They also left their wagon so that we can carry
Speaker 9: your catch.
Speaker 7: So yeah, Pop, ain't you awful all to be mixed
Speaker 7: up in this sort of thing?
Speaker 2: What there is? Kendon? The old man? I have been
Speaker 2: told that the underground's very well organized in this district.
Speaker 2: Who's the leader? I am? There were no lights in
Speaker 2: the houses we passed, There were no people on the roads.
Speaker 2: This was occupied territory. Fear and hate filled the air.
Speaker 2: This was Norway with no songs unless you can make
Speaker 2: music out of the heavy tread of a German soldier.
Speaker 2: They pulled the wagon up the road for about four
Speaker 2: miles without saying a word. Then we saw the roadblock.
Speaker 5: Oh bit the German sentry. Does he understand norwegi?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: We took him in after the last war. We brought
Speaker 9: him up and need promise to come back. They all
Speaker 9: kept their promise. Nice guys, to have a run, Pete, Ah,
Speaker 9: your friend plays his part together. Remember you have traveled
Speaker 9: this road for over a week. If this sentry is familiar,
Speaker 9: and don't be surprised.
Speaker 2: Well your breath, Pete, Remember which fish swallowed the forty five? Ah?
Speaker 6: It is you, Hey Johnsen? Yeah, dark night to night.
Speaker 6: Yeh man, I've asked the catch. We had a good
Speaker 6: cat hell here, let me take a look. I'd like
Speaker 6: to know what they'll be serving us tomorrow out of
Speaker 6: my way down one.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mess with the fish, and try not the smell.
Speaker 2: It will stick to your uniform and then the gurls
Speaker 2: will object.
Speaker 6: You are smart for Norwegian Johnson. When am I going
Speaker 6: to get another bottle of that brandy?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night will be it? To myself.
Speaker 6: Hey, dumb one, why aren't you wearing their pants with
Speaker 6: the patch? Where did you get the new sweater?
Speaker 2: Oh? I am having them cleaned for him.
Speaker 6: I'll bet he's going to see his girl. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: imagine the dumb one with the girl.
Speaker 11: He wouldn't know what to say. It is very funny
Speaker 11: my hair, of course, move along, answer. The steak of
Speaker 11: fish is beginning to hang in the air. Go along now, Yeah, hey,
Speaker 11: dumb one, maybe you will introduce me to your girl.
Speaker 2: I'll bet she looks like guy's got a great sense
Speaker 2: of humor. He made a move for that barrel of fish.
Speaker 2: I thought we were done.
Speaker 7: It was close close for him too, say palm, you
Speaker 7: and I German centric were real chummy, the kind of
Speaker 7: dangerous for the head the underground.
Speaker 12: You're off for the head underground. But I am also
Speaker 12: the low curl. Christian reached his house without any trouble.
Speaker 12: There have been two very long days and we were beat.
Speaker 12: I managed to get my.
Speaker 2: Shoes up before I collapsed, and then the sun broke
Speaker 2: in through the window and I got up eat and
Speaker 2: I went down for breakfast. There wasn't much to eat,
Speaker 2: so we broke out our rations and treated Jensen and
Speaker 2: his housekeeper to some real special delicacies dried egg and chocolate.
Speaker 2: Oh that was good. You're good. I'm not the army here,
Speaker 2: you say that. Huh, they've dried everything up with steak,
Speaker 2: mister Janson. Are we going to have any unexpected visitors?
Speaker 13: I do not think so. The Germans very seldom come
Speaker 13: to my home. Occasionally an officer will drop in, but
Speaker 13: not to open a many men whom you need.
Speaker 2: I hope we won't need any tonight. Pete and I
Speaker 2: will take a look at the bridge. How close can
Speaker 2: we get? That depends on what on how much of
Speaker 2: a chance you want to take. We've got to get
Speaker 2: right on it if possible. When we place the dynamitem,
Speaker 2: it must be done fast. We can't afford to grope.
Speaker 2: You can walk across just like that sentrados and stuff.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: I would suggest that you ask his permission. See serious
Speaker 2: Andy very see if we get cut sneaking across, we're
Speaker 2: lable to be shot if we can fool a guard
Speaker 2: at the bridge we walk across, and supposing we don't
Speaker 2: fool the sentry, you get shot there it is up ahead. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm at that, Heine placing back and forth. Wait a second,
Speaker 2: whatever you do, don't say a word. Even if he
Speaker 2: sticks that bayonet into you, don't say one word. I
Speaker 2: hope you and that guy hit it off real well.
Speaker 2: Hansen gave me a good story. It should work. Come on, Hi,
Speaker 2: good evening, right, Nette.
Speaker 4: I am a corporal, not that I wouldn't make a
Speaker 4: better officer than most of them.
Speaker 2: What do you want? We would like to cross the bridge?
Speaker 4: Bye?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Mister Janssen is our uncle. We have a message to deliver.
Speaker 2: What kind of a message about a party for the
Speaker 2: Germans who are paricked here? For the officers. I suppose.
Speaker 4: Let me see your papers?
Speaker 2: You too? He is dumb. He cannot speak, he.
Speaker 4: Can hear, can't he? Papus think all Norwegians are dumb.
Speaker 2: The party is to be for the enlisted man.
Speaker 4: Of course, you understand I was not referring to Hay Johnson.
Speaker 4: He is a smart man. He knows which side his
Speaker 4: bread is buttered. Yeah, your papers go on now, don't
Speaker 4: light on the bridge.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Keep your eyes open, Fete. You can only
Speaker 2: make this trip once. Yeah, yeah, yeah, how does it
Speaker 2: look to you? We can do it. Well, it'll take
Speaker 2: us at least an hour to set this stuff. An hour.
Speaker 5: It's an awful long time.
Speaker 7: This is an.
Speaker 2: Awful big bridge. You're going to have to do a
Speaker 2: good job the first time. Ah, I see you got back.
Speaker 2: Did did you have any Ah, no trouble. I told
Speaker 2: him that you were going to throw a party for
Speaker 2: the enlisted man. He was quite pleased. And mister Furlow,
Speaker 2: you think you can do the job. I can do
Speaker 2: it all right if I have the time.
Speaker 9: It is very important to us. This is their main
Speaker 9: line of supply from the note. It will cripple them
Speaker 9: for months. What happens after we do this, there will
Speaker 9: be a price. It's a few more will die.
Speaker 14: Huh, that's a tough shake. Oh, there are times when
Speaker 14: it is better to die. And do you tend to
Speaker 14: blow up the bridge day after tomorrow? The boat'll be
Speaker 14: there to pick us up. If we blow the bridge
Speaker 14: at twelve, let' still have two hours more than enough time.
Speaker 7: I ain't gonna look bad for you. Your nephew's disappearing a
Speaker 7: night the bridge goes. Eh, my real nephews soon come
Speaker 7: back on time.
Speaker 2: We better get some sleep. And look, I'd appreciate if
Speaker 2: you'd have the underground. Give me a time sheet on
Speaker 2: the German guard. Yes, how many? When they change where
Speaker 2: everybody is within a mile, I will live everything tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 7: Well, come on, Annie, let's trying man. I note that
Speaker 7: being a spine was going to be so easy. I
Speaker 7: had a buck for it long ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, things are going easy, all right, too easy.
Speaker 7: Hey wait, you've been andy, I've been waiting at now.
Speaker 7: We got a ride before to make Remember we aren't
Speaker 7: blowing the bridge tonight, Pete, why don't you think you
Speaker 7: ought to let me in on your plans. It's my
Speaker 7: next tools, an opportunity we can't afford to pass up. Look, Professor,
Speaker 7: In this game, we play for all of marbles, So
Speaker 7: stop talking to riddles.
Speaker 2: According to Yans and the troop train, we'll be passing
Speaker 2: through here tomorrow night. Nazis are moving south and we
Speaker 2: can put our real crimp in their plans. Keep talking.
Speaker 2: Not only do we blow the bridge, but we blow
Speaker 2: up a loaded troop train.
Speaker 7: It ain't that shaving of a bit. Ten tomorrow night,
Speaker 7: so last night we can make that boat. Remember it's
Speaker 7: up to you, Pete. Stop making me the heavy. I'm
Speaker 7: wanting to do it your way only I want to
Speaker 7: know what I'm getting into. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 7: We'll just one more question. Have you figured out how
Speaker 7: we get to the beach. You had to blow up
Speaker 7: through the woods. They're not crawling with Nazis. M manue
Speaker 7: With the commander of that boat, said he'd only wait
Speaker 7: ten minutes and suppose to what's our crawler with Nazis?
Speaker 2: Well, we take the big gamble and try to float
Speaker 2: down the river to the sea. I hope we make it,
Speaker 2: that's all. Yeah, Well, okay, I vote your way. Since
Speaker 2: we're here, we might as well do it up right.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful opportunity, Pete, even if it is a
Speaker 2: big gam.
Speaker 7: I don't mind a gamble. I just hope the dice
Speaker 7: ain't loaded. We sat for hours and watched the darkness
Speaker 7: at eleven. We looked at our watches, thought about the
Speaker 7: Pete tepot anchored off shore.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of ifs in our plans. If
Speaker 2: the moon didn't shine, if the Germans didn't wise up,
Speaker 2: if the train wasn't late, if the guards weren't doubled.
Speaker 2: We spent a long night and a long long day
Speaker 2: waiting for it to get dark again. When Janson burst
Speaker 2: into the room. You you will have to change your plants.
Speaker 2: We can't. We're set to leave in thirty minutes. Downstairs,
Speaker 2: a guest stop, who made you want? Somebody taught? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 9: He says he's looking for someone that's just dandy. He
Speaker 9: was here some weeks ago. He met both of you.
Speaker 9: I mean my real nephews.
Speaker 7: Come on, start thinking, Andy, we can't walk past him
Speaker 7: with the runs full of time of mine.
Speaker 2: Didn't you get rid of him? No?
Speaker 9: No, when he is in this district, he spends the
Speaker 9: night here. He sent me for you.
Speaker 2: Oh great, I.
Speaker 9: Think you can fool him. Anderson, you resemble my nephew
Speaker 9: are closely. But then dumb one, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well he'd better before because I'll be carrying a
Speaker 7: forty five one of my shirt.
Speaker 2: Come on, Pete, if we can pluck this through, we've
Speaker 2: got a chance. Answer moddle of Brandy. Oh there you are.
Speaker 7: I didn't see you standing in the doorway, but I
Speaker 7: can see the bottle.
Speaker 2: Bring it here right away. Major Nana, come in.
Speaker 7: I want to talk to you, ah mine, hair, I understand.
Speaker 7: Norway is playing host to a couple of American spies.
Speaker 2: That is impossible in my name, impossible but true. However,
Speaker 2: I should catch them and teach them a lesslie. You
Speaker 2: know what they look like? Mine hair? Of course I
Speaker 2: do not know what they look like. He's stupid. Low.
Speaker 7: Do you think they go around singing Yankee doodle dandy,
Speaker 7: No mine hair, more brandy.
Speaker 2: This bottle's empty.
Speaker 7: I will get some on on. Send the dumb one,
Speaker 7: go ahead, go that's hard I could have sworn. Last
Speaker 7: time I was here. He was stoop shouldered.
Speaker 2: Hey, come on, whe's the brandy.
Speaker 7: Of course, the brandy. That's what brings me back to
Speaker 7: this miserable place.
Speaker 2: I am glad this is something brings you back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sure you are. You probably hate me, don't mind hair,
Speaker 2: you you do me an injustice? Of course you are
Speaker 2: one of our dear quizzlings. How about you one? How
Speaker 2: much do you hate me? No mine hair? No one here? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you were almost as dumb as the other one.
Speaker 10: Way.
Speaker 2: You see, he's right here with the brandy.
Speaker 7: Give it to me, dumb one. Yeah, oh he opened
Speaker 7: it for me. A nice thank you, dumb one. Anna
Speaker 7: come here, take off my boots? Yeah, mine hair, you
Speaker 7: lick them? I can send you to it. That's happened
Speaker 7: to your hair? Jansen, I thought you'll nephew.
Speaker 2: What's that? Oh, dear dumb one, he dropped the tray.
Speaker 2: Clumsy fool.
Speaker 7: A brandy should be drunk from a bottle.
Speaker 2: This is brandy, yes, and with the spin.
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Huh? Why I don't understand it. He could drink
Speaker 2: two gallants or not even get a little drunk. He's
Speaker 2: getting plastered now and be out for at least ten hours.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know what the Norwegian why it is,
Speaker 7: but in Brooklyn we call it a mickey.
Speaker 2: Just over this ridge where late Andy and turns doing
Speaker 2: less than an hour.
Speaker 5: You'll just have to work faster.
Speaker 2: That's hold it. What now, I got guards in the woods. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I see him. It's gonna be tough to get around
Speaker 2: him and slip under the bridge. That would take us
Speaker 2: over an hour. We'd miss the boat. We'll have to
Speaker 2: walk the road right to the bridge. What about the
Speaker 2: century have to get rid of them and pray that
Speaker 2: we have time to set the dynamite before they discover him.
Speaker 5: So we had them together.
Speaker 2: You walk about a pace behind me. I've got it
Speaker 2: close enough to use a knife. It's gotta beat a feist.
Speaker 2: Time So home mess? What good evening? Oh it's you.
Speaker 2: Don't you pay any attention to the curfew. What does
Speaker 2: he got in the package? Come here and let me
Speaker 2: sw for a college man, you surelined a lot of things. Look,
Speaker 2: you'll have to set the dynamite alone. I'll slip on
Speaker 2: his coat and stay here. Pretend I'm in the central.
Speaker 2: I'll send it as quick as I can lock.
Speaker 5: Thanks candy, he finished.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I had more time, but I think this.
Speaker 2: I'll do it.
Speaker 7: Let's start moving. We can't What do you mean we can't?
Speaker 7: I didn't time for I said, what we had to
Speaker 7: stay and set it off?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 7: Look, supp wasn't the train is late? That the time
Speaker 7: fuse had mess? We stayed this long? Why does it
Speaker 7: finish your job?
Speaker 2: Huh? Where's your detonator? About a hundred yards back? Lead
Speaker 2: the way? Okay, I did. I didn't have time to
Speaker 2: bury the wire, but.
Speaker 7: Nobody trips it over the bridge. Looks like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 7: You know more wires than American TNT.
Speaker 2: Well, well we can do an hour's wait?
Speaker 7: Yeah, gee, I wish I could smoked.
Speaker 2: So do I as we get comfortable.
Speaker 7: How much time we got to get to that boat?
Speaker 7: Huh less than fifty minutes? Huh too late to go
Speaker 7: through the woods.
Speaker 2: Too late? Who so is the river? It's going to
Speaker 2: be tough. Half a railroad will be drifting with us.
Speaker 7: I don't worry about that. Later we're gonna be sitting ducks.
Speaker 7: When our bridge goes, we'll be like, no, I don't
Speaker 7: my god.
Speaker 14: That's it.
Speaker 2: Ah, it looks like that. Find our friend. It's really
Speaker 2: going to get crowded here and about that's on. Hey, hey,
Speaker 2: here comes a commuters special. It's ourr target. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: snake along. It's getting closer. Wait till hits the middle,
Speaker 2: and then push the plunger. It'll take the whole bridge,
Speaker 2: you know. Make sure you get the car. I know
Speaker 2: what the door three two one? Now, Freddy, ain't hurry up? Jabby,
Speaker 2: you did fine. You should have seen what I did
Speaker 2: for graduation and sloping into the river. Yeah, right behind
Speaker 2: your cow, here's our private tor. Grab a hold of
Speaker 2: that beam.
Speaker 6: I don't got it, Hi, those fires make a beautiful sight.
Speaker 2: I'm too busied to be a natural. Won't let go,
Speaker 2: Colonel drag it right down I'm holding, I'm holding. I
Speaker 2: had a worse cold. This will take us close to
Speaker 2: the randezvous. It's real cold.
Speaker 7: Hey, Andy, Yeah, when we get back to camp, remind
Speaker 7: me to tell you about a dame.
Speaker 2: I know him, Brooklyn. What about it?
Speaker 7: She came any Air for a lifeguard because I couldn't swam.
Speaker 3: The blowing up of the railroad bridge in Norway cut
Speaker 3: a German lifeline and paralyzed their Norwegian forces for mouths.
Speaker 3: Besides the loss of military strength, the droop train, much
Speaker 3: needed ore and food was kept out of Germany. This
Speaker 3: was another blow struck toward the final invasion, and once
Speaker 3: more the report of an OSS agent closed with the
Speaker 3: words mission accomplished. Listen again next week or another true
Speaker 3: adventure from the files of the OSS.
Speaker 2: On Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 10: Heard In today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Andy was
Speaker 10: Joseph Julian Pete was played by Ralph Bell, Jansen Raymond
Speaker 10: Edward Johnson. The German major was Barry Kroger, the Guard
Speaker 10: Jerry Jarrett. The sentry Frank Barons. The American captain was
Speaker 10: played by Carl Weber. The script for Today's Cloak and
Speaker 10: Dagger Adventure was written by David Harmon. The music was
Speaker 10: under the direction of John Guard, sound effects by Chat
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Speaker 10: the book Cloak and Dagger by Cory Ford and Alistair McBain.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Well, another exciting story, and I think they definitely made
Speaker 1: the right call in using a mickey on the Gestapo officer.
Speaker 1: They were on a tight schedule and those Gestapo guys
Speaker 1: can monologue like no one's business. Now we do turn
Speaker 1: to listener comments and feedback and we have a couple
Speaker 1: of combinations starting over on Spotify. Regarding the episode, a
Speaker 1: recommendation from Rammel Pretty Mechanic sixty six rites pretty good,
Speaker 1: if a little far fetch with all the extremely lucky coincidences.
Speaker 1: I remember the name Barry Kroger from a bunch of
Speaker 1: old time TV shows like Perry Mason. Well, I will
Speaker 1: say that sometimes you will have a lot of lucky
Speaker 1: coincidences happen, and probably the place you most have to
Speaker 1: accept them is in stories that are based on real life.
Speaker 1: Though sometimes people will do things with a story where
Speaker 1: they will combine like a bunch of really lucky or
Speaker 1: good things that happen in real life to multiple people
Speaker 1: and have it all happen to the same person, which
Speaker 1: can make it a bit more implausible. Harrison Riots, I
Speaker 1: didn't even recognize Jan Minor's voice, and I listened to
Speaker 1: quite a few Casey Crime Photographer episodes. It was really
Speaker 1: fun getting to hear her do something different. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure we've heard Jan Minor and other things. She
Speaker 1: was doubtless in The Falcon, although they rarely credited more
Speaker 1: than one or two actors. In addition to the lead,
Speaker 1: she was also in the Thanksgiving special we released on
Speaker 1: the podcast last year, which will be posted to YouTube
Speaker 1: this year because our Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter specials end
Speaker 1: up playing a year later over on YouTube. But it
Speaker 1: was the CBS Radio Workshop a writer at work where
Speaker 1: she hosted this program about the writing of the Second
Speaker 1: Missus Burton, which was a radio soap opera she appeared in.
Speaker 1: And then she also acted in a dress rehearsal of
Speaker 1: one of the scripts for that series. So if you
Speaker 1: want to hear Jen Minor and something really different, you
Speaker 1: could check that out as well. Then we have a
Speaker 1: couple of comments from YouTube regarding Swastika on the Windmill.
Speaker 1: Kathy again in rites, I wasn't sure about this series,
Speaker 1: as I was never a fan of spy stories, but
Speaker 1: this has turned out to be one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: I've learned so much about this bit of history that
Speaker 1: was never taught in school. What a fascinating part of
Speaker 1: the wartime story. So impressed with the courage of these people.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, Thanks so much, Kathy, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: we're able to highlight that as well. And then Ryin
Speaker 1: Sir wrote, sounds like the falcon and I think there's
Speaker 1: good reason for that because Klockendagger was an early nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties series aired over NBC originating from New York, so
Speaker 1: doubtless there were some sound cues and incidental music that
Speaker 1: was swapted between the various shows, even early on in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties. Thanks so much for the comment, Ryan. Well,
Speaker 1: so now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of
Speaker 1: the day, and I want to thank Jan, Patreon supporter
Speaker 1: since December twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the
Speaker 1: Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or
Speaker 1: more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Jan,
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