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from September one, nineteen fifty, here's the episode War of Words.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive?
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens who
to this question answered yes. This is Cloak and Dagger,
black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of
the OSS. Today's story, a War of Words, concerns an
American agent who personally delivered a message to the kernel
of a Japanese camp and is suggested by actual incidents
recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services,
a story.
Speaker 4: That can now be told. Okay, Harry, I spotted it.
There's our target. Check, ready to let them go, Ready,
bombs away theer's he goes.
Speaker 5: I dropped every.
Speaker 4: One of those bombshells we had in the plane, and
they hit the target right on the nose. And the
explosion that followed sounded like this just as much noise
as paper makes when it floods to the ground. Those
were our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets, leaflets designed by OSS to
lower the morale of the Japanese soldiers in that camp
in Burma. Those were our silent weapons.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna turn back now, Okay, Pete, Harry, what do
you think of that phoned up picture of the bombing
Tokyo we just dropped?
Speaker 5: Looked authentic to me.
Speaker 4: And I liked that little pamphlet too, you know, the
one that began Suns of the Rising Sun. It is
better to surrender than fight without bullets or die of
starvation in the jungle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that one was real, cured.
Speaker 2: It's sure.
Speaker 3: How to give those lousy jets something to think about, right, Sorry, Harry.
Speaker 5: I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 4: That's okay, Pete, forget it. Let's beat our own record,
get him back this time. Huh yeah, here we go.
Sometimes the guys forgot that Harry was short for Haryoshi Ryoshinabura.
And though I like to think of myself as an
American Japanese, even people thought of me as a Japanese American.
I had to learn not to be too sensitive.
Speaker 5: Mean boys, not in Thank you, colonel, it's down.
Speaker 2: Cigarette. Thank you. You two have done a good job
in the past few months peppering Burma without propaganda material. No,
here's a night, thank you, and we already have begun
to see the results. Or how's that, colonel, Well, you
know how live Japanese prisoners used to be at a
premium Rather than be captured, they'd commit hallakiri, almost in defiance.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I hear a lot of them are surrendering lately.
That's right.
Speaker 2: Their morale isn't what it was good and you too
can take part of the credit for that. But tomorrow, tomorrow,
I want you to go one step further. Well, listening,
sir h take a look at his documents.
Speaker 4: What is it Chinese or Japanese. Well Greek to me,
I can tell you what it is, Pete. It's obviously
a forged order to the commander of the Japanese camp
to withdraw his troops three miles east.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope it's not an obvious forgery to him
attended Nabura, because if he falls for it and moves
his camp, our armies will have a clean road right
into Bambo. And once we get there, Burman's practically in
our hands.
Speaker 5: I see. Oh begging your pardon, colonel.
Speaker 4: What are we supposed to do to walk into that
Jat camp and deliver these orders?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, No, your job is much simpler. All you have
to do is fly over the OSS Detachment one hundred
and one at Asamon, drop this document a Cutching natives,
and our agents there will do the rest. We've contacted
them by radio. They expected check, Colonel, be a snap,
nothing to it.
Speaker 5: This o'll be a snap.
Speaker 6: Ha, nothing to it?
Speaker 5: Ha heard. I know we'd run into a champ zero.
Speaker 7: Right back at your buddy.
Speaker 4: Now, he died too fast for your Harry. I'm gonna
grab more sky. Maybe you can lose him up there.
Speaker 1: It's on a tail.
Speaker 5: Maybe not for long, hang on, boy.
Speaker 4: Most of the way up, the air was thin enough
so that I could see the nose of that zero
following us, and then it's seven thousand feet. The air
became thick and we lost him, but the plane had
taken quite a beating.
Speaker 5: How bad is a lot you're paid?
Speaker 3: Oh, we're having more than fifty miles to go, and
we can sit down and cutch in territory, make.
Speaker 5: Repairs before heading back to India.
Speaker 4: Okay, instead of dropping that document, well delivered purse, won't
we get there?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 5: If we get there? What what's that wing? It's coming
off where he hit us. Percy goes, what are we
doing now? I'm gonna kick a stick.
Speaker 4: Forward as hard as I can put her in a loop.
Speaker 5: Well, that's crazy. Now out of tosses backwards out of
the cockpit. Don't pull your rip cord before your fall
free of the plane. We'll light to the river.
Speaker 8: I'll give you a freake dry.
Speaker 5: Here we go.
Speaker 4: We fell free of the plane. I jerked the rip
cord in my shoote open. On the way down, I
inflated my may west and the little lifeboats swelled up
below me. I could see Pete drifting slowly in the
Brahma put the river and then I hit the water.
Speaker 5: Boy, this is a nice mester to be and.
Speaker 3: Not even sure exactly where then one oh one detachment's located.
Speaker 5: It's somewhere to the south, isn't it. Yeah, that's the
help who who jungle steaks?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna think of a lot of places I'd rather be,
for instance, for instance, anywhere this place is probably crawling
with enemy patrols.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a pleasant but careful, careful all trip over
those roots.
Speaker 5: The jungle was heavy and oppressive. The tall trees spread.
Speaker 4: A canopy over our heads and shut out what little
sun there was. After a few miles, our shirts were
ripped the shreds on the brambles, and blood ran into.
Speaker 5: Our eyes from the leeches on our foreheads. And then
feet stopped shorting, Harry, But the river? What river? What
is it? From a putre where we lay in it?
You see it?
Speaker 4: Say to the right, I don't get it. We passed
it a few miles back, Yeah, we sure did. You
see that clumper roots? They look familiar and that's where
you almost tripped, right there by the swamp. But yeah,
we made a nice big circle, right back where we started.
How the devil did we do that anything could happened
in this lousy.
Speaker 5: Harry japatroll. Just isn't our day coming this way? Quick?
Speaker 7: The swamp never see this week. Let's get on the
water to it pass, all right, Let's say I get down.
Just keep your nose up to breathe, but we have
to get.
Speaker 5: Down under it. Don't breathe all right?
Speaker 8: That I think.
Speaker 5: Like to reached out and then tied their shoelaces. Let's
get out of here.
Speaker 4: That night we lay side by side, deep in the jungle,
on top, of course, undergrowth, underneath the trees from which
Leanna's hung down like braided ropes. We shooted oppositions every
few minutes. It's a regiment of ants and bugs crawled
into our clothing and kept us awake. And then towards
morning we fell asleep exhausted. When we awoke, the sun
had found a hole in the branches.
Speaker 5: And crawled through. Boy, that sun's hot, is it? What
do you mean? Is it? I'm cold, Pete, I got
the shakes fever. I don't know. I just feel sick,
sick of my stomach. We can't sit here, you think
and travel.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, come on boy, that sounds blazing, isn't it. Well,
but you said you had the shakes. Oh nothing, nothing,
Come on, Harry, come on now, up on your feet. Boy,
you'll be all right.
Speaker 5: Come on, boy, that's it.
Speaker 4: But we started walking again. Our wrists had open sores
on from jungle rode. My head was hot, my hands
were cold, and I felt sick, awful sick. Harry, how
do you feel? I'll be okay with that swamp we
hit in. That's those lousy bugs that got on your skin,
and I'll be all right. Ah, Harry, Harry, Yeah, Harry, hiy, h.
Speaker 5: Okay, fella. I just take it easy. Yeah, that's it.
This cold cloth on your forehead, it'll make you feel better,
you'll see. Boy. Pete, yeah that's Pete. Where I couldn't
you say anything more original than that? For crying out loud,
my black god, than I don't talk so much, blabbed
enough when you were off your head? Uh, who's a
focusing girl?
Speaker 4: I know it, U c l A. I figured how
long it goes have been Sinsey, you know, two days
and we got enough rash and it we'll be okay.
Speaker 5: I don't lie to me. I said, we'll be okay. Now,
don't try to set up Harry. Well, how far do
you think we are the cutcheons.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I've got the direction pretty well mapped
out now by a day's travel.
Speaker 5: Do south?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 5: If you sit here with me for a week, now,
don't cut some pick it out of here. I'll tell
you what. If you make it there by yourself, you
can come back with some of the natives and get me.
Not on your life.
Speaker 4: I'm not leaving it, but quiet, someone's out sun you
do its God and call out when out of the cares.
My head was pounding hotter than before. Maybe maybe it
was the fever. Maybe it was because I had to
lie to helpless while people went out a law do
whatever was outside?
Speaker 5: Do not shoot? Friend and friend?
Speaker 9: Who are you?
Speaker 5: Maybe soothing? Scout and scout? Show it is morning from
top of tea, show your head brooks so uniform. Yeah, yeah,
you got good eyesight, But you still haven't told me
who you are? Told you and sing scout, cutchen, scout, cutching, cutching.
Speaker 4: H Why didn't you say so you're from Asamia, You're
from the OSS detachment.
Speaker 5: He's from Harry, Harry, did you hear that? Ol, how's
this from the mountain coming to Mahammon? It's great, It's
just great. Would like, oh boy, would love.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: Look, I've got a sick friend in here in the
cave there fever. Can you fix him up? Do we see?
Speaker 4: I looked up from a bed of leaves that Pete
had made the cutching scout oleen over me with short
and squat, with long, matted hair and teeth worn to
a black stuff by beatlemut.
Speaker 5: He took a good look at me and jumped back
that he'd been bitten.
Speaker 4: Jumpy copy.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, hold on, Wait a.
Speaker 4: Minute, hold on, I said, I listened to son this
this is American. Just like I said, he's Japanese. It's
no use listen to is a Japanese Yes, yes, that's right.
But he's American too. He's having American friend.
Speaker 5: Look at his uniform.
Speaker 10: You say free, I say, Japanese. Will fix up from fever?
They didn't bring to camp, They didn't say, which is what.
Speaker 4: I don't know what he mixed it up in those
which doctor concoctions. Besides the juice of mahogany LEAs and
the roots of the leanna vines or whatever it was.
Speaker 5: I was on my feet.
Speaker 4: Two days later we started out for Detachment one oh one,
only this time we had a guide. And then the
next night, out of nowhere we came upon it.
Speaker 5: Well what did you know here?
Speaker 4: It was the USS secret hide out, carved right into
the jungle of Furmas.
Speaker 5: So this is Detachment one oh one.
Speaker 4: They will eat straw, attached pashas, a mess hall, a well,
aquip hospital, mortars, bazookaus, crates, av yournhering, harry look.
Speaker 5: A woman, a woman, a Red Cross nurse.
Speaker 4: Gi paratroopers and bright colored shirts and I'm maced jump
boots were strolling about, mingling with a Native troop.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Oh, is it just like a city in the wilderness,
isn't it. It's like nothing I've ever seen before, and
probably late nothing you'll never see again. Uh where'd you
come from?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure, and they've been standing behind you all the tame.
Would you like to let me show you around? Babe?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well not now. Thanks.
Speaker 4: The guide who brought us here disappeared. We've got to
find the head man around here. We have something for him.
Speaker 9: Ah.
Speaker 8: But you'll live longer if you live slow and don't
drive yourselves remem Mother is the soul told me that
in Dublin many years ago. He mayrish, you know no, no,
you don't say oh yes, yes. You take a good
look at her little camp. As they said, you'll probably
never see anything like it again if you live to
be one hundred and four. It's as if the liper
can't set it down right in the middle of the wilderness.
We'll look around later, if you don't mind, know who's
insane to take out?
Speaker 5: These lads.
Speaker 8: The paratroopers who were first down in the they all
had the same look about them when they first came,
as if they stumbled into a better fire leaf.
Speaker 5: Look, would you mind very much? Lad?
Speaker 8: There was a farmer in Wisconsin and they went talking
to the nurses from Boston originally that is and the
tar Lad is a Texas but we won.
Speaker 5: It took lot to make him say that this looked
better to him than Texas. Well, you are forced down
here too, Will, in the manner of speaking, yes, I was.
What did you do before the war? I will? I'll
tell you, Leeds.
Speaker 8: I operated a hut furring from Hoboken to Canarsie. You
want furry right, driving little business. It was too, and
after the war, I'll probably come back to it. This
guy's off his rocket.
Speaker 5: All Look, where can we find somebody in authority?
Speaker 8: That evening Mass with everyone else Mass? Of course, you
see that big store hut at the far end, you'll
find him there.
Speaker 4: We went to Mass, and when we got there we
found our friend with the bro the one who told
us I ran a hot furring go boken to Kanasi
officiating at the.
Speaker 2: Quoted.
Speaker 4: Every once in a while he'd look up at us
and I could see the suggestion of a smile around
his lips.
Speaker 5: That was a soldier Staddy next to us.
Speaker 4: Who is that?
Speaker 5: Well, that's father, o'dool. You practically organized the one on one.
Speaker 8: Sure, And I said it just to see the look
at your faces later.
Speaker 3: On, we'll take a good look boy, my red, I
would father or two. Yes, here the four Japanese orders
the colonel gave us in India. Of course, the original
plan about dropping them over to you and turning back
didn't work out. But just as long as we got
them here, just as long as we have them, we
know what to do with them.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 8: There's a Japanese mail courier coming through tomorrow night from
the groom to the jack camp at Mucklem. Now I'll
have sue Linga one of the other scouts intercept him
and deposit this document.
Speaker 5: In his mail. Coach, oh, I get it. Father.
Speaker 4: When he comes to he won't know what hit him,
but he'll keep going with the forged papers.
Speaker 5: Hey, so you get a quick brain lead and there
by the bay.
Speaker 8: Yes, father, you know, since you're Japanese as well as American,
I suggest you stay close to me for the next
day or so until you leave. You see, then the
natives will get over their suspicions of it.
Speaker 5: I seem down with fever. Ah, I was nurse all
right for bardging? And do you hurt this way? Father?
A tool? But sue Ling told me one of these
men had jungle sickness. Wait, it's great, alright, Nurse Amy Leeds.
Take a look at her. Isn't she a fair cal
You know that's enough of your blindy. Father. Come with me, please?
What's your name, noborer? Lieutenant Harry Nabora. I'm okay? Now,
really are you that?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 5: We just want you at the hospital for a checkout.
Come along, Hey, hey, wait, you jave mind if I
come to No, not at all the doc who looked
me over and gave me a clean bill of health.
Speaker 4: It must have been those witch doctor herbs and sue
Ling's later father O'Toole gave us a bashot to ourselves,
and Pete and I fell on those army cons And
then about three o'clock in the morning, Harry, Wait, what's up?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Let's find out. Yeah, what's everybody running to?
Oh there's that nurse. Maybe seen Hey, nurse nurse. Nothing
to be alarmed about. Boy, what happened?
Speaker 6: One of the cab approaches our watch dog call? Probably
any miscou?
Speaker 5: I didn't hear any doe.
Speaker 6: This is a silent watchdog. What Actually, it's a crossbow
with one hundred and fifty pound pool. It set up
so any intruder who touches the trip string is shot
for the poisoned arrow.
Speaker 5: Well that that's quite a watch dog. Yes, I've been
thinking of putting one up in front of my tent
or so Sally, So Sally mean, Now it's done, sholing.
It can't be helped. It's all right. Hello father ho there,
your lads, come on in. What's up? Father sue Ling?
Make mistake mag mistake a mistake. Well, I'll tell you boys,
it's like this.
Speaker 8: I sent Sue out last night to intercept the Japanese
courier and deposit this document.
Speaker 5: And his mail. Poach. What went wrong?
Speaker 8: Well, it seems that Suling doesn't know his own strengths
to quote a phrase, and he hit him too hard.
I'm very much afraid the courier will not be able
to deliver the mail after all to the camp at Mucklem.
Speaker 4: Well, look farther OUTO. That document is important. It's got
to get there. Where's the coreer now in the hospital?
Speaker 5: Is even the very best kid? I assure you.
Speaker 4: I'm a male sack in my position. Okay, then another
jab coury is going to take his place and deliver
the mail.
Speaker 5: You're nuts, Harry, what other jet courier?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 5: Now? I know your nuts het?
Speaker 4: When I sweach uniforms of that guy, take a good
look at me. I promise you you'll never recognize me.
Speaker 5: The idea has a touch of genius, lad, I think
it may work.
Speaker 4: I hope it may work. Slipping an extra prayer for
me father. While I was at it, I went after
the letters and cards that were going to the Japanese
soldiers and phoning them up. I raised everything but the
signatures and wrote about how bad conditions were back in
Tokyo and the black market was flourishing, how they were
being bombed every night. At dawn, I had changed into
the captured courier's uniform. I had the mail sack over
my shoulder and soooling at my side to take me
most of the way.
Speaker 3: Good luck again, me boy, Thank you father too. Harry, Harry,
you sure that you want to do this? Walking right
in the lions. Then they get wise to you, They
get wise to me. Hikata ganai.
Speaker 2: What's that mean?
Speaker 5: It's good Japanese for so what?
Speaker 11: Who goes there?
Speaker 4: And thought? I soon a corea from the program with
mayor for your soldiers and a special dispatch for your commander.
Speaker 2: Mayo Toya, Come a close.
Speaker 5: Let me see your face.
Speaker 6: I do not know you.
Speaker 5: Where's adana papers? Let me see papers? Identification? Yeah? Very good?
Speaker 9: Whays dispatch you say is for me here? Why are
you so late? Mail was expected yesterday?
Speaker 5: It was unavailable. Answer my question directly? Why are you rate?
Native catchin warrior attacked me on the way. I had
to fight him off. Connadagain, those catchings.
Speaker 9: Siren devils in the jungle shadows IM sublet to know
when they are about they jump out at you er us.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, well what you're waiting for? You may leave now? Yes, yes, sir,
I leave. I leave.
Speaker 4: I was glad to leave. It been easy up to
that point. I try to keep from walking too fast
to the gate past.
Speaker 5: Let me see it past thread. I hear it was
stand at Colonel Gel's headquarters. Right, you're gonna go? Where
where your death? Do you not hear me shoot top
of a gun to call your attention? Or why you
want me? I do not want you receive the word
that gate from Colonel A. Gail. We want you to
come back.
Speaker 9: Come there you are Korea. I want to make sure
you did not leave here. I is the something wrong,
Connona girl?
Speaker 5: What you're talking about? What could be wrong? Yeah? Important
message for your canal? Take it?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you Connana Gail. I should be grad
to deliver this tool my cannel. This time nobody stopped me.
Speaker 4: When I left the camp at mcclahm and started back
for Cutching headquarters. I must have been within two miles
of Detachment one O one when I realized I was
being followed. I couldn't see anyone, to hear anyone, but
I knew some one was there in the brush or
the trees, hidden somewhere along the trail. I started to
run fast her. My lungs started to ache with each friend,
and my strength was gone and a hangover the femur
I'd just gotten over. If I had escaped from the
Japanese camp and fallen in the head hunter hands, I
know I didn't have a chance.
Speaker 5: What are you you? I doc Dabonese English?
Speaker 1: What are you?
Speaker 5: Head hunter? You luck the lucky? Now bless messie? Lieutenant
Border they see you a week? Are you feeling, Harry,
father of two? Hey, what are you doing here? Sit up? Lieutenant?
Let me change that on your head? How did you
get here? Had you mixing things up? Have been led?
You mean? Of course? How did you get back here
to the USS camp? To the what I will now?
It's very simple.
Speaker 8: I have an apology to make for my friends, the
Kutchins who brought you here. They'd been out scouting for
the past week and they did not know you. Also,
of course, the Japanese uniform you were aware and confused them,
but it was a pity that they speak only their
own language, so that you couldn't clear up the situation.
They need to teach them how to speak English, English
the way it should be spoken.
Speaker 3: Lieutenants Harro, Yoshinabora and Peter Bono were returned to India
by plane on the rescue Camp Arrasan, and a few
weeks later a special dispatch informed OSS headquarters at the
strategic city of had been taken. Thus, once again the
report of another agent closed with.
Speaker 5: The words mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2: Clock and Dagger.
Speaker 11: Heard in Tonight's Clokendigger Adventure, as Pete was Chuck Webster.
Harry was played by Ralph Bell, father of two by
Eric Wrestler. Others were John Allison, Lama, Edward Johnson, Carl Weber,
Jerry Jarrett, Corri Starplin, and Guy Repp. The script for
Cloak and Dagger was written by Winterfred Wolf and Jack Gordon,
and the music was under the direction of John Guard.
Sound effects by West Connant, Manny Siegel and Norman Greenfelder.
Tonight's true OSS adventure was based on the book Plockendagger
by Cory Ford and Alistair McMain. This program was produced
by Lewis G.
Speaker 5: Collin and Alfred.
Speaker 11: Hollander under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 5: Welcome back. We have an apparent recurring character with.
Speaker 1: Father O'Toole, who was in the Catching story we played
a couple months back. The one scene where Harry's status
confused a catching warrior illustrates a peril face by Japanese
American servicemen if you were serving in an area where
the Japanese were active. The whole He's Japanese and American
thing was clearly not something that they were prepared to
de all with. All right, well, listener comments and feedback now,
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