War of Words

Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? 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 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 colonel of a Japanese camp, and is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services.

A story that can now be told. Okay Harry, I've spotted it, there's our target. Check. Ready to let him go? Ready. Bombs away. There she goes. There she goes! I dropped every 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 flutters to the ground. Those were our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets.

Leiflets designed by OSS to lower the morale of the Japanese soldiers in that camp in Burma. Those were our silent weapons. I'm gonna turn back now. Okay Pete. Harry. What do you think of that phony-dub picture, the bombing in Tokyo, we just dropped?

Looked authentic to me. Well, and I liked that little pamphlet too. You know, the one that began, uh, sons of the rising sun. It is better to surrender than fight without bullets or die of starvation in the jungle.

Yeah, that one was real cute. Yeah, sure, I'd give those lousy jabs something to think about. Sorry, Harry, are you? I shouldn't have said that. That's okay, Pete. Forget it. Let's speed our own record getting back this time, huh?