First SEALs (40 page)

  
43
      
“
the training of . . . duplicating effort
.” Ibid.

  
43
      
Additional detail on the trip to
Silver Springs
comes from several memos located in the NARA: Duncan to Woolley, August 23, 1943; Sexton to Woolley, August 26, 1943; Sexton to Duncan,
September 7, 1943; Sexton to Lichtman, September 14, 1943.

  
43
      
“
I received one . . . useless orders
.” Lt. Duncan to Lt. Com. Sexton, “Report on Trip to Ft. Pierce, FL. and Silver Springs, FL,” October 2, 1943, NARA.

  
44
      
“
As I have discussed . . . under guard
.” Captain Alfred Lichtman to Lt. Commander Sexton, “Work at Silver Springs,” September 17, 1943, NARA.

  
44
      
“
Experimentation under Lt. Alexander . . . all matters
.” Ibid.

CHAPTER 6: CRAZY YANKS: THE MARITIME UNIT'S BEACHHEAD IN EGYPT

  
47
      
Opening scene comes from author interview with Lloyd Smith and internal
OSS
memos.

  
48
      
“
six foot five . . . his thigh
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 312.

  
49
      
“
Haven't [I] seen . . . Oh
.” Ibid., 310

  
49
      
“
the chiefs of . . . hair
.” Ibid.

  
49
      
“
oddly chilling guy
.” Persico,
Piercing the Reich
, 124.

  
49
      
“
To be truly challenging . . . of life
” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 23–24.

  
50
      
“
like a duck to water
.” OSS training memo, Hayden personnel file, NARA.

  
51
      
“
To complete my . . . John Hamilton
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 310.

  
52
      
“
I developed a system . . . be killed
.” O'Donnell,
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
, 4.

  
52
      
“
To break a bear hug . . . Ruin him
.” Ibid., 5.

  
52
      
“
Unfortunately, his insults . . . his arms
.” Henrik Kruger,
Hans V. Tofte Den Danske Krikshelt
(Aschehoug Danish Publisher, 2005), from Clint Sporman, who provided translation.

  
53
      
“
In a sense . . . out alive
.”
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
, 5

  
53
      
“
every bit as . . . a bayonet
.” Author interview.

  
54
      
“
means of a piratical war
.” Wilson to Churchill, September 9, 1943, NARA; also, author interview.

  
55
      
“
protection from the . . . base camp
.” Taylor to HQ, memo, August 1943, NARA.

  
55
      
“
it was absolutely . . . Middle East
.” Taylor to Woolley, cable, August 1943, NARA.

  
56
      
“
Daffy intolerable. . . . hasn't heard
.” “History of Maritime Unit
in Cairo,” NARA.

  
56
      
“
was completed two . . . exasperating delays
.” Jack Taylor, memos on
Samothrace
, September 1943, NARA.

  
56
      
“
borrowed a Jeep . . . some sailing
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 310.

  
56
      
“
Some of these . . . and goldbricking
.” “History of the Maritime Unit in Cairo,” NARA.

  
57
      
“
they were wasting . . . maritime matters
.” Ibid.

CHAPTER 7: PIRATE YACHTS AND SPIES OF THE CLOTH

  
60
      
“
urgently needed medical . . . from Cairo
.” Taylor to Deputy Director of ME, “Maritime Ferrying Service—Report on Trip to Samos and Turkey,” October 13, 1943, NARA.

  
60
      
“
Samos being dead . . . impossible situation
.” Ibid.

  
60
      
“
grab any fast . . . and speed
.” Ibid.

  
60
      
“
good use
.” Ibid.

  
60
      
“
blew a fuse
.” Ibid.

  
60
      
“
U.S. was not . . . very unappreciative
.” Ibid.

  
62
      
“
dive-bombed and strafed . . . starboard
.” Ibid.

  
62
      
“
Nine Junkers circling . . . debris column
.” Ibid.

CHAPTER 8: “HAGGLING, BRIBING, FINES, DELAYS, INSPECTIONS, BULLSHIT”

  
65
      
“
If that crazy . . . take you
.” Taylor to Deputy Director of ME, “Maritime Ferrying Service—Report on Trip to Samos and Turkey,” October 13, 1943, NARA.

  
65
      
“
three hours of . . . plain uncooperativeness
.” Ibid.

  
66
      
“
checked with the . . . British hands
.” Ibid.

  
66
      
“
he had thought . . . was gone
.” Ibid.

  
66
      
“
The operator assured . . . could get
.” Ibid.

  
66
      
“
We prepared to . . . to go
.” Ibid.

  
66
      
“
It seemed all . . . them short
.” Ibid.

  
67
      
“
Departing, we were . . . the island
.” Ibid.

  
67
      
“
more knots than . . . and sail
.” Ibid.

  
67
      
“
Bomb burst and . . . Turkish coast
.” Ibid.

  
68
      
“
Lieutenant Taylor has . . . to Maritime
.” Acting Chief, Maritime Unit, to Lt. Col. William P. Davis, III, “Background
Report as of September 30, 1943,” November 29, 1943, NARA.

  
68
      
“
Provisionally tried underwater . . . destruction
.” Jack Taylor, “Outline of Maritime Operations Proposed by Maritime Unit of OSS,” September 10, 1943, NARA.

  
69
      
“
Underwater operatives and . . . enemy defenses
.” Ibid.

  
70
      
“
his appreciation for . . . medical supplies
.” Taylor, “Maritime Ferrying Service.”

  
70
      
“
It was experience . . . Yugoslav partisans
.” “History of the Maritime Unit.”

  
70
      
“
sign for it . . . their mind
.” Taylor, memo to OSS HQ, October 1943, NARA.

  
70
      
“
a formidable sheaf . . . complex situation
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 310.

  
70
      
“
a group of escapees . . . Greek Islands
.” Ibid., 311.

  
70
      
“
The British . . . fistful of orders
,” Ibid.

CHAPTER 9: TREASURE ISLAND

  
74
      
“
I was a lifeguard . . . I volunteered
.” Author interview.

  
75
      
“
who was jokingly . . . his tail
.” Ibid.

  
75
      
“
a certain amount of consternation
.” Ibid.

  
75
      
“
ideal for planting . . . underwater demolitions
.” “History of the Maritime Unit.”

  
77
      
“
The first few . . . being detected
.” Author interview and John Booth, “
Report on Operation Cincinnati
,” NARA.

  
78
      
“
In these tests . . . underwater swimmers
.” Roosevelt,
War Report of the OSS
, 227.

  
78
      
“
The exercise was . . . terrorist attacks
.” LCDR Michael Bennett, USCG, “The US Coast Guard and OSS Maritime Operations During World War II,” last updated January 8, 2009,
www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-52-no-4/guardian-spies.html
.

CHAPTER 10: THE
YANKEE
, OPERATION AUDREY, AND THE BOOT

  
81
      
Opening scene from author interview with
Lloyd Smith
.

  
82
      
“
everything was in . . . first impossible
,” Carl Hoffmann, Chief SO,
OSS Partisan Supply Operations
, 1944, NARA; numerous internal documents on the operation were also sourced.

  
83
      
“
It has simply . . . vessels running
.” Ward Ellen, “Report on ‘Audrey',” March 25, 1944, NARA.

  
83
      
“
virtually without a rest
.”
OSS Partisan Supply Operations
, 1944, NARA.

  
83
      
“
Within the next . . . boats arrived
.” Ibid.

  
83
      
“
Within three weeks . . . to receive
.” Ibid.

  
85
      
“
battered, leaking fishing schooners
.” Ibid.

  
85
      
“
quite remarkable since . . . not risk
.” Ibid.

  
85
      
“
responsible for the . . . except communications
.” Ibid.; also
War Report of the OSS.

  
85
      
“
By plunging through . . . weather served
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 313–314.

  
86
      
“
repeatedly asked the . . . surface craft
.” “History of the Maritime Unit.”

CHAPTER 11: “THE LITTLE PEARL HARBOR”

  
87
      
“
A mob of . . . ran madly
.” Hayden,
Wanderer
, 312.

  
87
      
“
pumped tracers over . . . effect whatever
.” Ibid.

  
88
      
Scene of
Hayden's interaction with the Yugoslav partisans
. Ibid., 312–313.

CHAPTER 12: THE ULTIMATE RESCUE

  
91
      
The scene on the
C-53 comes from various excellent survivor accounts, including Lawrence O. Abbott and Clinton W. Abbott
,
Out of Albania: A True Account of a WWII Underground Rescue Mission
, and Agnes Jensen Mangerich,
Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
. The author also wrote about the escape in
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
and conducted interviews with their rescuer, Lloyd Smith.

  
93
      
“
It was learned . . . in Albania
.” OSS Memo on Stranded Nurses, 1943, NARA.