First SEALs (43 page)

223
      
“
From beginning to . . . presenting arms
.” Ibid.

223
      
“
that an American . . . Bless America
.” Taylor, Dupont Mission Report.

CHAPTER 29: SUNSET

228
      
“
dispatched upstream, swimming . . . the way
.” Operation Caprice V reports and memos, August 1945, NARA.

228
      
“
comprehensive film report . . . wooden craft submersible
.” Donovan, Commendation recommendation, NARA.

CHAPTER 30: “THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER BEEN IN THE MOVIES”

229
      
“
I'm lieutenant senior . . . this lager
.” The original version of the film resides in NARA. An online version of the film can be found at
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/mauthfilm.html
.

230
      
“
Five or six . . . in time
.” Ibid.

230
      
“
The boys rustled . . . the morning
.” Kosiek, “Liberation of Mauthausen.”

231
      
“
running down SS . . . the area
.” Taylor, Dupont Mission Report.

231
      
“
death books
.” Ibid.

231
      
“
outstanding . . . the best war-crimes evidence
.” Persico,
Piercing the Reich
, 312, and Harry Cimring, American Dental Association, “In Memoriam” article; various documents related to the trial located in NARA.

EPILOGUE

233
      
“
Will you describe . . . eating
.” Transcripts of Mauthausen-Gusen Camp Trials, NARA.

234
      
All quotes are from the transcripts of
Mauthausen-Gusen Camp Trials
, NARA.

235
      
All quotes are from the transcripts of Mauthausen-Gusen Camp Trials, NARA
.

236
      
“
For the safety . . . UDT missions
.” Francis D. Fane,
The Naked Warriors: The Elite Fighting Force That Became the Navy Seals
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995), 279.

236
      
“
It had been . . . we turned
.” Ibid., 290–291.

236
      
“
There was a . . . Roman Coliseum
.” Ibid., 291.

237
      
“
The day . . . far off
.” Ibid., 293.

237
      
“
additional unconventional warfare . . . universal capability
.” Rear Adm. William E. Gentner, memorandum, March 10, 1961.

237
      
“
I am directing . . . and reoriented
.” John F. Kennedy, “Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs,” speech delivered May 25, 1961.

THE FIRST SEALS AFTER THE WAR

239
      
“
For extraordinary heroism . . . Allied Arms
.” Jack Taylor's Navy Cross Citation, NARA.

240
      
Details on
Jack Taylor's death
from an ADA “In Memoriam” article written by Taylor's dental partner, Harry Cimring.

240
      
“
I can no . . . bodily fluids
.”
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1964.

243
      
“
It is recommended . . . this agency
.” William Donovan to the Adjutant General of the War Department, “Recommendation for the Award of the Legion of Merit to Commander H.G.A. Woolley, D.S.C., Royal Navy,” letter, June 21, 1945, NARA.

247
      
Information on Hans
Tofte
from James Barron, “Hans Tofte, World War II Spy Later Dismissed by the C.I.A.,”
New York Times
, August 28, 1987,
www.nytimes.com/1987/08/28/obituaries/hans-tofte-world-war-ii-spy-later-dismissed-by-the-cia.html
.

248
      
“
I screwed my . . . a thing
.” Author interview.

248
      
“
senior hotties at . . . American Veterans]
.” Ibid.

INDEX

Adriatic, intelligence gathering in,
97–99
,
104–106

Aegean Sea, Axis in,
59
,
62–63

Agents, covert insertion of,
12–14
,
69

Aimone, Duke of Aosta,
120

Albania

     
Operation Picnic I,
109–113

     
rescue of American nurses in,
93–97
,
102–104

     
resistance groups,
95

     
supplying partisans in,
95

Alexander, Lt.,
43–44

Alexandria Harbor,
6

     
Decima MAS
attack on,
119

Allies, end of war in Europe,
226

Ambassador Hotel, as training site,
36

American nurses, interception of plane and later rescue of,
91–97
,
102–104

American Volunteers Ambulance Corps,
42

American Weekly,
178

Angelike
(caïque),
62

Angleton, James Jesus (“Artifrice”)

     
Borghese and,
225–226

     
capturing high-value targets from
Decima MAS,
217

     
vetting Italian operatives,
120–122

Angaur, preparation for invasion of,
138–140

Annapolis Natatorium

     
test of Browne's diving mask at,
25–26
,
32

     
test of LARU at,
32

Anton, Tabornak Wattay,
171

Anzio, invasion at,
122

“Aqua-Marines,”
34–35

Arakan Coast (Burma), reconnaissance in,
141–143

Area A,
18

Area B,
18

Area C,
18

Area D,
17–21

     
training course,
20–21

     
Underwater Swimmer Group training at,
36–37

Area F,
18
,
52

Area WA,
74

Army Rescue craft,
86

Auda-
class Italian submarine,
5–6

Austria

     
area of operations,
157

     
recruitment to support Allies in,
151–154

     
See also
Dupont mission

Ball, John,
137–138

Ballists,
95–96
,
102–103

Bank, Aaron,
237

Bari (Italy)

     
German attack on,
87–89

     
interception and rescue of C-53D Skytrooper plane,
91–97
,
102–104

     
as Maritime Unit site,
69
,
70–71

Barracks heads (
Blockeldesters
),
208

Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training,
42

Battle of Fallujah,
185n
,
249

Bazett, Henry,
27
,
28

Berg, Moe,
185

Bertoncin, Marcello,
176

Biagioni, Louis,
208

Bionda mission,
187–189

Black, Robert,
137–138

Blue Beach (Angaur),
139

The Blue Book
(magazine),
241

Bodine, Les,
141

Booth, John

     
death of,
77n

     
life after war,
248

     
missions in Pacific,
141–143
,
144
,
145

     
Operational Swimmer Group II and,
75
,
77
,
79

Borghese, Junio Valerio Scipione (“The Black Prince”)

     
deal with Allies after the war,
225–226

     
death of,
249

     
joining German side when Italy switched sides,
176

     
as leader of
Decima MAS,
6
,
8
,
117
,
121

     
life after war,
249

Brac,
97

Brenner Assignment,
248

     
Smith and,
104

Brenner Pass,
104

Britain, deployment of Operational Swimmer Group L to,
79

British Eighth Army, Eighth Army Detachment and,
184–186
,
190

British forces

     
dislike of supplying Yugoslav partisans,
99–100

     
Maritime Unit coordination with,
145

     
in Mediterranean,
65–68

     
raids on Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbor,
145–146

British Navy

     
interest in LARU,
29

     
Italian underwater attack on,
5–8

British POWs,
162–163

Browne, Jack,
25–26
,
28
,
30
,
31
,
32–33

Bruckner, Hans,
206

Buchleitner (butcher), Dupont mission and,
158
,
160–161

Burke, Arleigh,
237

Burma

     
invasion of,
145

     
Operational Swimmer Group and,
146

     
reconnaissance in,
141–143

Burrfish
(submarine),
134–135
,
137–138

Caïque

     
OSS use of,
56–57
,
60
,
62

     
unreliability of,
68

Cairo OSS headquarters

     
Hayden and,
48–51

     
Taylor and,
47
,
48–49

     
Tofte and,
51–53

Camp Pendleton,
74

Cape Rodoni (Albania),
109

Caprice missions,
146
,
227–228

     
Caprice V,
227–228

Carpenter, Emmet,
137–138

Carroll, F. Michael,
132

Carroll, Madeleine,
241

Casablanca Conference,
53

Catalina Island, training on,
74
,
76

C-53D Skytrooper plane,
91–93

Ceylon

     
Operational Swimmer Group II and,
79

     
Operational Swimmer Group III and,
146

Cheduba Island,
145

Choate, Arthur,
78
,
124
,
135
,
136n

Chrislow, John,
127–128

Churchill, Winston,
53–54
,
67

Civilian Conservation Corps,
17

Clark, James E.,
133

Clark, Mark,
184
,
215