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and Dagger. But first I want to encourage you, if

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But now, from June eleventh, nineteen fifty, here is the

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People in the Forest.

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Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the

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enemy lines, knowing you you may never return alive. What

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you have just heard is the question asked during the

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war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who to

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this question answered yes.

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are

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the weapons of the OSS. Today's story the People in

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the Forest is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the

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Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story

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that can now be told.

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Speaker 4: The plane began to slow down and then it circled slowly.

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Someone pulled the cover off a jump home.

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Speaker 3: And I got my first view of France occupied France,

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August nineteen.

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Speaker 4: Forty four actioncations on the ground. To the right, I

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could see fires like safety matches lit the moonlight, and

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I wondered how big they really were, those fires that

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were out there. The guide us in the dispatcher told

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me I was to jump second.

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Speaker 3: Ready, number one, Ready, And then it.

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Speaker 4: Happened, the first bad break of admission. Only it didn't

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happen to me. It happened to Chris.

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Speaker 3: Powler seeing France, got pill okay, followup number one, good luck,

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Oh geronimo.

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Speaker 4: I just stood there looking down watching them go, and

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my heart started to pound all over me my breath.

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Speaker 3: I nearly choked on it. Chris fell and fell and fell.

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Speaker 4: The shoot didn't work, came out of the bag and

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streamed unopened behind him.

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Speaker 5: Paratroopers call that a Roman candle outbreak. I want to

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turn back stabella, huh no, no, I'll jump into Okay,

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then ready number two, number.

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Speaker 4: Two ready Ready. The wind came up and hit me

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in a rush. I felt myself falling. I think I

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died a few times until I heard the crack of

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the shoot.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, the.

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Speaker 4: Most beautiful sight in the whole world, that big white

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umbrella over me. The little safety matches on the ground

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got bigger and bigger. I realized there were torches, and

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then I saw a figure of a man waving. He

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started to get bigger too, and then the torches were

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put out. I was about to get my first introduction

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to the French underground.

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Speaker 3: Are you all right? Yeah, yeah, I'm all right. I

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saw what happened to your friend. It was too bad. Yeah,

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you had courage to jump after bed. Maybe if I'd

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stopped to think about it, I never would have. Maybe

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I was afraid I'd never jump again if I didn't. Then, well, anyway,

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here I am. My name is Captain Robert Skirpeller. Captain

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Robert Scarpeller, American. Welcome, Welcome to Franz. I am ecstatic

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to make your acquaintance. Captain. The little guy threw his

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arms around me and kissed me.

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Speaker 4: When I was twelve, i'd said next to me, you

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see my father, good night, because it embarrassed me, and

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here was this little frenchman with the beret and baggy

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pants and far my shoes where his arms around.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm just so happy to see you about it

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while I'm the Fox. The Germans themselves gave me that name.

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Look at this head would you believe there is a

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price on it? Or are you the leader? Yes, of

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one of our little bands. The British radia alerted us

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about you coming. Well, that's a got reason for my coming,

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Captain Fox. You may call me simply Fox. Okay, Fox.

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Now let's pick up supplies before bragfeople. Right. As for

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your mission, Captain, there will be time enough to talk

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about it when we get deeper into the forest to

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our highway. Is that very far from here? Unfortunately there's

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a little walk. We were forced to move our headquarters

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last night after another German raid. Oh what do you

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mean another? Our positions have been rated three times the

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past night, almost as if the bush were given a

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map of where we were in the forest. So sounds

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to me like somebody's dirty work. I have thought of that, Captain.

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But if there is a traitor in our group, I

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shall find him. We know how to deal with such.

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I'll bet you do. Oh yeah, oh that's nice, very

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very very nice. This current rifle, beautiful garden. There are

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shoes on those packages too, and food and grenades. Oh

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what a beautiful rifle. I was to tell you to

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expect a heavy supply drop in a few weeks. What

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a beautiful rifle. We still are using few pieces from

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the frank Oppression war, but this is a beauty. Now,

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gather up your things, Captain Scarpella. I'll be back in

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a few minutes. I'll be back. The fox disappeared into

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Speaker 4: The whole thing seemed like a crazy nightmare, the whole

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forest surrounded by Germans, and yet here I was passing

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the time of day, just like nothing at all, with

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the Frenchman who had a price on his head, and

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somewhere there where he drifted, Chris was a dead heap

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under a lot of parachute silk.

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Speaker 3: I grabbed a.

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Speaker 4: Gun and I waited for trouble. I didn't know whether

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to go after the parx and take a chance on

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being ambushed, to stay where I was.

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Speaker 3: Someone was coming. I duck behind a tree.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I could figure was the Germans that'd

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seen the plane seen me land I took aim carefully, slowly.

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Speaker 3: American a kind of loud. What happened? What were those shots?

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I just wanted to get the feel of your gun,

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so I simply tried it on a couple of Germans

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over the edge of the hills. Excites very well, crying

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out lot this little dinner parties. You're on her, Captain Scarpta,

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I regret we have nothing better than wild Rabbits store.

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Well it's as well, quite a welcome headquarters. Don't tell

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me to expect anything like this. Lose more wine for

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the captain, but of course, yeah, I will repay your glass.

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Oh thank you? Oh no, and place we say thank

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you this way? You mind not kissing you? Oh no, no,

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not at all. I love American alicy come hurt me?

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I need you now. God, Mary is calling, Oh we alive. Coming.

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She's a very pretty girl that lost Losette, and very young, yeah,

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only seventeen already. She has seen so much hiding like

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this in the Paris sneaking back into the German old village,

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into the village we miss her. Many of our group

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work in the village, right into the noses of the enemy,

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and the Germans do not know that they are members

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of the mcke or. But they know you're here. Oh

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they know, they know that we're here, but they do

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not there come near the forest, excepting big rating fives.

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They know very well that to one dead of ours,

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there will be twelve dead of theirs. Well, captain, now

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about your mission it's purpose?

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Speaker 4: Tell me more, please, While I was sent here to

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find out the German defense plans for the port of

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Santa's area and the entire coastal area around Ah, I

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know those plans are in German.

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Speaker 3: Headquarters in the village, and you request our help.

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Speaker 4: I've got to have those plans, and in a matter

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of days I've got to deliver on personally the eighth

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cour head.

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Speaker 3: Now put your mind of these, Captain Scarpella. The facts

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will help you.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 6: The first thing I will do is put your don't

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you Captain Scarpella, I'm marry Ah.

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Speaker 3: She's the mother cat of that little kitten who kissed

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you before. Oh, happy to meet you, and.

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Speaker 6: We are all enchanted to meet you American in your honor,

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we have a special surprise.

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Speaker 3: Listen, I tons you.

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Speaker 7: Mean you're please, Captain ster Feller.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is something I write home about, write home

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about yeah, nice cozy evening with friends. How you never

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know there was a walk going on? We neighbors? Where

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does the lookout got autrem Captain fall, I see, I

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see what else to division? I? At least don't you

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have a touch surroundings? Captain star Color, I regret very

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much to have interrupted your welcome party in this man Brenner,

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real box Renner. We the new machine in our American

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friend brought with him. Now what is it called, Captain Scarpeller. Oh? Yes,

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this Butzuka now ticket take it to an end that

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they just position? You understand? We find now less not

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my friend, my friend. Now is the best time for

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him and some of the others to learn how to use.

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Speaker 4: A hoof for crying out love. If I thought it

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seemed like a nightmare before, it was nothing. But what

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happened now it's so mixed up in my mind. I

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can't remember it clearly. It wasn't anything like the patrols

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I've been trained for.

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Speaker 3: In the army. Captain Scarpella, allow me please all right? Ah,

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these Germans are becoming very annoying. Uh what would you

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mind pointing out the other way? First? Excuse me? This

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is a beauty just a little beauty.

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Speaker 4: From out of nowhere. A German soldier fell forward on

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his face, and then the fox and I moved on.

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I remember thinking of cripes, this is like kids playing cops.

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Speaker 3: Scatters.

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Speaker 4: French boys still in their teens ran by with the

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cross of the rains on their coats. I saw Marie

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take in behind a tree, and all the time the

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fox kept smiling and never stopped smiling. I feel selfish.

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Captain Scarpella, give me that gun. I will let you

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bury yours a while. They are about fifty yards ahead.

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Speaker 3: There is a juicy rabbit in German uniform. Oh please

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get him, Captain. The fox was right.

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Speaker 4: The rifle did side well, and then all of a

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sudden they were less Frenchmen around and more Germans all

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around us.

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Speaker 3: In a case like this, my friend, the best course

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is to run, well, run this first. It's like a

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chicksaw puzzle to me. You know it backwards. It is

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from necessity, of course, I regret exceedingly that I must

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ask you to join me here in this swamp. We

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will stay here till it is safe to leave ships

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under the water. Leave only you knows about it. To

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breathe God, How can one fight what one cannot see?

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I think we happen this time.

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Speaker 2: Half they are scattered and disorganized.

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Speaker 5: This is the end of our trouble with them retreated,

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but may return.

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Speaker 2: Well, we will find out from our informant later.

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Speaker 3: I'll got the job we have done this time. I'm

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going on my hands.

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Speaker 2: Shall I stay here?

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Speaker 3: Ask God? No, it is not necessary, there's nothing here.

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Come better with me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: If they had posted a guy here, it would have

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been the most inconvenient Chaptain Scarpeller, are you very wet?

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What do you think? Well, they will be king close

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for you at our ride out come. It is time

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for us to go there. Well, this has been a

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very annoying givenent Foxy Fox. Did you hear what they

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said about an informant? I heard, I heard Captain scarp.

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Marie is employed as charwoman and German headwaters in the village.

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She is the contact of whom I spoke. What can

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I do to help you? Just tell me there are

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plans for the defense of San Nazar. What do you

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think the chances are that they may be in the

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files of the office where you wake. Marie? Very good,

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I would say, Marie, Marie tell me. What are my

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chances of getting into those files?

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Speaker 6: All so very good? The door of the Huffman's office

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is left open for me, so I may wash the floors.

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I see it will be easy to enter. As for

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the files, I have a key, A key, wait, I

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will give it to you. Who else is better than

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I hoped for? When can we go tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow? Why not?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 6: The Germans are still out searching the forest and the

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coast will be clear.

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Speaker 3: Let us leave now. Well, I'll say it for you,

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Captain Scarpella, for crying out loud. Less than an hour

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later we were in the village. It was five o'clock

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in the morning and there's no one around the village.

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Speaker 6: Slept Captain Scarpelle, listen to me. There is the German

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headquarters across the street. I will leave you and go

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inside to get my mup and bucket. You will watch

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through the window when I distract the guard. Go quickly

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to the side door.

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Speaker 3: It is opener. The Hawkman's office is the third door

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from the end. Third. You have the key to the

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to the fire's heads. Yes, yes, I have it, Bob.

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I go now. Remember the signal I gave you in

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case of danger.

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Speaker 4: I watched to go into the pelly, and then I

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took up my position at the open window. There was

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a guard at the front desk, no one else around.

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I pressed myself into the shadows, and after a while

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Marie came to the front desk and began to mop

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the floor.

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Speaker 6: I'm not that, and the sooner I finished, the sooner

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I am through.

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Speaker 3: I knew that soon she'd do something to distract us.

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Speaker 7: Too.

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Speaker 3: Must be worse, No, I would be too, pleasantly sorry.

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It was not deliberate. Side door was open, and she

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said what The third door from the.

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Speaker 4: I made it the German Captain's office, and in the

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corner were the files. The key in my hand was

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hot and sticky.

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Speaker 3: It fit. It fit the key fit I knew it would,

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But somehow it would slid in and turned. I took

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a breath of relief. I didn't have much time. I

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knew it didn't have much time. I had to find

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those plans. But where the papers? Where were they? And

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I heard Marie signal a froze. But I couldn't stop searching.

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Speaker 4: Now ready, almost as if God had put it into

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my hand at the right moment, I found the photostadtic

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copies of the defense plans.

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Speaker 3: No, she could only hold them off until I get

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out of the place. Let's see now, let's see the window.

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That's it.

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Speaker 4: It was going a short drop to the ground and

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still knowing in sight. I had a feeling Marie could

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take care of herself, and I started back for the forest,

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the plans in my pocket.

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Speaker 1: HM.

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Speaker 3: I'll see here, Captain Scarpella, I'm the man you see.

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You come out of the forest three miles north at

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this point right? Is that a clear road? Fox? You

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will have no difficulty. Captain. There has never been any

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reason for the Bosh to post guards at this exit.

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Now pay attention. I must talk to you, both of you. Marie,

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what are you doing back at the farmhouse? Why are

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you not in the village? Murie was at trouble after

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I left through that window. Do they know about the papers?

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They know because they were told told by a dirty

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little spy from our own ranks. What now, Please quiet,

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This is my business, Captain speak Marie. I overheard the

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spy one of us. I blushed with shame to think

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of it.

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Speaker 6: The spy was telling the Bush captain about the papers

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and the Americans mission. Fortunately for you, Captain Scarpella, the

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spy was not able to warn him early enough, and

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the road is blocked. However, you are trapped here, American.

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You may have the plans, but there is no way

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for you to leave and deliver them. The road knows

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is swarming with the red ants of Germans.

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Speaker 3: Traitor his name, Give me his name, Marie. I will

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do better. I will give you the trait Rennee. Bring

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her in here, cold on the floor, Throw her on

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the floor.

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Speaker 6: Listen to herself, my own daughter, torn from my own flesh,

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right daughter, that for what is going to be done

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to you, but for what you have done, spy.

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Speaker 3: Trait this girl, my daughter.

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Speaker 6: I speak on her.

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Speaker 3: I waited for her.

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Speaker 6: Outside after I heard her the captain, her German captain.

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Speaker 3: I waited for her and dragged her back here. Fox

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to do what you want with you? Know that, No

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lose that look, No, No, was it you you who

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gave away our positions each time?

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I told her.

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Speaker 3: It has been so hard.

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Speaker 8: I have known more for so long.

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Speaker 9: Now, all my life, I have known two words you

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had on my own. I am glad your your father

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is dead, so he does not see this.

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Speaker 3: They promised me so much.

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Speaker 4: I did not think it's so bad.

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Speaker 9: I only gave them.

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Speaker 3: Small bits of information, information except what is lost about

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the American You call giving away our small loser.

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Speaker 4: We are so much smarter, and it always gave us

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a chance to kill.

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Speaker 3: So many of them. Your excuses disgust me. Say the

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word fox. Let me throw her to the rest. I

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am your mother no longer. Do not call me that foxes.

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Maybe you're fair, but I've got a stake in it. Now.

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Whether you wish to say, Captain, there's.

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Speaker 4: Only one way out of this forest, it's blocked right

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now thanks to her. Let's forget that. All that matters

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to me is that I get through with these plans,

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all set. Do you want a chance to prove yourself?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I will do anything. You not listen to her,

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She has a quiet Go on, captain, now our German headquarters.

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Before Marie distracted the guard because she knew. Now who

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knows the Germans at the exit of the forest. To

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distract them, I do, I will let me please, they

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trust me. I will give you a chance to slip by.

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It is too great to risk, my friend. I have

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no choice. I can't stay trapped here. The plans are

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no good in my pocket. Very well. On one condition,

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I will go alone, and if she does not do

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what she says, the facts will shoot her through the heart.

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You have my permission. Ah, There are many clouds out

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tonight to hide the moon and talk of the bitter Losette.

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There are your friends at the foot of the hill.

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Go to them. We will hide here among these piles

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of firewood. Way I will go, and remember, Losette, this

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gun is aimed at you.

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Speaker 10: Go.

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Speaker 4: We hid behind towering cords of tree trunks and branches,

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piled in a woodlock for the village's firewood.

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Speaker 3: We watched a.

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Speaker 4: Few minutes later. We saw them, the soldiers and the girl,

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silhouetted against the moon. We couldn't hear what they were saying,

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but every once in a while we heard them laugh.

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Speaker 3: They swarm about her like bees about a flower. Come

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on this way, we will sneak past them and into

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the brush wild. Now she's doing a good job trying

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to retain herself a completion.

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Speaker 8: Yes, one was the clue decided through the help. It

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don't take us to mistake with you all God, A

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bangages to being any myself captain this week into the brush.

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Get h.

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Speaker 3: I looked back over my shoulder and saw the ze

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crumple into a keep on the road. I knew she

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was dead. I do not grieve for her, my friend.

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It is best this way. It is easier than living

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with herself. How do we get out of this? We're surrounded.

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Speaker 9: Up.

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Speaker 3: Surrender? What means that way? You know?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Have you call it? Come out that this will help?

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Kevin Joe said, b the bus, Come on, I'm trying

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to burn us out. We come out, we'll be shut

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down by the machine guns America. I have an idea. Yeah,

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stand here. When you hear a loud crash and I

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call out, you run through the fire. It is not

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dead yet, my friend.

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Speaker 4: He ran, like the fox of his nickname, to the

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tallest pile of firewood in the dark night. I saw

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him struggle with a log at the base of the pile,

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and then a huge tower of wood came tumbling down

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and the screen. I plunged through the fire and found

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the pass, and a few minutes later the sly Fox

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miraculously joined me.

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Speaker 3: You can make it from here along to the American lines.

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Captain sc what about you, Fox, don't worry about the fox.

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I'll get back all right. Perhaps we shall meet again

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one day, Captain who knows well? Or why then goodbye?

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I never looked back, and I never saw him again.

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But when I think of him now, I think of

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him not with the beret, but with a green hat

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and a feather, a little like Robin Hood.

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Speaker 2: Captain Scarfeller delivered the plans personally to the Assistant G

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two at eight Core Headquarters, and he was recommended for

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the Distinguished Service Cross or the American lives he had

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saved at the port of Santa's Air. Thus, the exploits

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of another OSS agent closes with the words mission accomplished.

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A further adventure in Black Warfare is next week.

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Speaker 3: Cloak and Dagger.

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Speaker 10: Heard in Today's Clock and Dagger Adventure were Joseph Bueloff,

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Lily Darvos, Larry Haynes, Nancy Franklin, Barry Kroger, Raymond Edward Johnson,

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Carl Weber, Boris Aplin, and Jerry Jarrett. Script for Cloak

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and Dagger was written by winterfred Wolf, and the music

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was under the direction of John Gart. Today's true OSS

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adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger by

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Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. This has been a Lewis G.

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Cohn production in association with Alfred Hollanders. It was under

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the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx Robert Warren speaking

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Stay tuned now for the up to the minute news

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on the Open Golf Championship.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This continues to be a program that doesn't

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pull punches about some of the harsh necessities and situations

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that come up in the course of war. Having to

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jump out of a plane after your buddy's parachute didn't

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open because the mission is so vital is one example

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of that and a very jarring way to start the program.

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And certainly there are examples of the same principle with

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the McKee. But I think the Fox is an interesting

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character for his attempts to maintain his humanity and his

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unique personality and approach and to bring a lotness where

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he can. He was willing to do what was necessary

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and could be very dangerous and deadly, but there was

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no necessity for him to go about grimly all the time,

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and the French underground grim moments would come all too often,

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all on their own. Listener comments and feedback now and

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we go over to Facebook where Emmett rights regarding an

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episode to the Trojan hor course, this was a really

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good episode from a series I'd never heard of before.

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I hope there are lots more of these, though I

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doubt it. Thanks for finding this well, thanks so much.

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Hamt Lots is a bit of a relative term. We

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have more than twenty episodes, which doesn't compare to some

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of the bigger series that we're going to do, such

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as Counterspy, but is far better than so many other

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series which have really been ravaged by time, leaving only

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a few episodes extent for modern listeners to listen to. Well,

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