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עוד על הסיפור יוצא הדופן הזה
בתגובה להודעה מספר 1 שנכתבה על ידי yaari שמתחילה ב "הסיפור האמיתי - "ממזרים חסרי כבוד-גרסת המציאות""
אתמול הוקרן בערוץ 1 סרט על מבצע GREENUP - מבצע שהOSS ארגן באיזור אינסברוק לקראת סוף מלחמת העולם ה2. המרגל העיקרי היה פרד מאייר , חיל אמריקאי ובמוצאו פליט יהודי מגרמניה. בתחפושת של קצין גרמני מחלים מפציעה, הוא אסף מידע חשוב והעבירו למטה הOSS. המידע שהשיג כלל למשל
- ריכוזי כוחות באיזור,
-ריכוז רכבות אספקה וחילים שעמדו לתגבר את החזית הנאצית באיטליה . הריכוז הופצץ והושמד.
- מידע על הבונקר של היטלר, מיקומו , עובי התקרות , מספר הקומות ועוד.
- בתחפושת של חשמלאי צרפתי התקבל לעבוד במפעל שיצר ME262 שהאמריקאים חששו ממנו, ודיווח שהיצור מושבת מכיון שחלקים לא מגיעים.
הוא נתפס ע"י הגסטפו ועונה אך לא הסגיר. למזלו הבוס הנאצי של אינסברוק כבר הבין שהמלחמה אבודה, ושלף את פרד מהכלא. פרד ארגן את כניעת אינסברוק ללא שפיכות דמים.
ספר על המבצע:
OSS Agents in Hitler's Heartland: Destination Innsbruck
סקירה על הספר:
OSS Agents in Hitler’s Heartland: Destination Innsbruck by Gerald Schwab. Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881-5007, 1996, 208 pages, $55.00.
OSS Agents in Hitler’s Heartland recounts one of the most successful operations conducted by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II. The book tells the story of Operation Greenup, which involved three young OSS agents who were air-dropped into the Austrian Alps in the closing months of World War II. Their mission was to gather intelligence on Nazi activities in the Innsbruck area. The author decided to tell their story after learning of this mission during a reunion of the aircraft crew and OSS agents.
This book begins by recounting the agents’ parachute insertion via a modified B-24 Liberator bomber. It provides many little-known details concerning the tactics and equipment used to conduct covert airdrops in the war. On most OSS missions, security concerns precluded the aircraft’s crew and undercover agents from becoming acquainted, but over the course of two aborted attempts to complete this drop, the crew and agents got to know each other. The agents included two recently naturalized OSS enlisted men and an Austrian-born Wehrmacht officer who had deserted and then volunteered for this assignment.
Franz Weber, the former German officer, was selected to join the team to take advantage of his personal contacts and knowledge of the area. Born in Oberperfuss, near Innsbruck, he had numerous relatives and acquaintances nearby. He proved quite effective in obtaining transportation and getting the team into safe houses. Hans Wynberg, a Dutch-American, was assigned to the team as the radio operator.
The team leader, Frederick Mayer, became a very effective spy, obtaining very detailed and reliable information about German industry, transportation nodes, and even specific locations of Nazi leadership. As a result, many of the industrial and transportation installations described by Mayer were destroyed by strategic bombing. Mayer was quite a risk taker, assuming the identity of a German officer and later transforming himself into a French electrician working in a German military plant. His luck ran out when he was captured by the Gestapo. Mayer successfully withstood the interrogation and beatings without divulging the names and locations of his fellow agents. Fortunately for him, the thousand-year Reich began to fall apart rapidly. The US Army’s 103d Infantry Division was closing in to striking distance of Innsbruck. In an interesting role reversal, the Gestapo agents and local Nazi officials began to be concerned for their own well-being. A deal was struck with local Nazi leaders that allowed Mayer to meet oncoming US Army forces and coordinate the surrender of Innsbruck.
The book covers the whole spectrum of Operation Greenup, from planning through termination. It provides fascinating details of equipment, encryption, and covert resupply and communication. The book is both well written and researched as well as very entertaining to read. In addition to conducting interviews with actual participants, the author derived a good deal of information from OSS documents located in the National Archives or obtained from the Central Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act. Schwab includes complete text of all message traffic transmitted between the agents and OSS headquarters. Also included are eight pages of wartime black-and-white photographs and an epilogue that details activities of the principal participants after the war. I enjoyed this book and would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone interested in military history.
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יהודה
נערך לאחרונה ע"י ykantor בתאריך 21-01-2013 בשעה 22:13.
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