Daring Missions Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Darkness Falls over Europe
	Post Office Shoot-Out Launches a War	5
	Wiping Out Hitler's Spy Network	7
	The Gestapo Cracks an Espionage Ring	9
	Masquerading Germans Pace the Invasion	10
	A Streetcar Spearheads an Attack	13
	Hitler Order: Kidnap Queen Wilhelmina	14
	A Legal Diamond Thief	15
	Rommel Personally Captures a Unit	16
	A General's "Impossible" Escape	17
	"The Cat" Was a Triple Agent	20
	Prowling behind German-Held Coast	22
	Cat-and-Mouse Game	24
	A Personal Telegram for the Fuhrer	27
	Who Was the Mysterious Max?	28
	Underwater War at Gibraltar	29
	Polish Spies Invade Germany	33
	A Leg is Parachuted to a British Ace	36
	Sudden Death for the "Blond Beast"	38
	Parachuting in a Boat	41
Pt. 2	Freedom's Time of Crisis
	A Ruse to Spy on Cherbourg	45
	"Hunting" Germans in Canoes	46
	Jewish Raiders in Disguise	47
	A Conspiracy to Capture Cairo	51
	Intruders at a Secret Airport	52
	A Special Medal for Burma Tribesmen	56
	American Medics Save Ho Chi Minh	59
	A Hoax at Soviet Oil Fields	60
	A Woman Heads an Escape Apparatus	62
	The Ranger Wore Bedroom Slippers	66
	The Countess and the Commandos	66
	"Blow Up Rommel's Railroad!"	71
	Reconnoitering Hostile Beaches	76
	A Master of Disguises	78
	Deceiving an Italian General	79
	The Canal Saboteurs	80
	Strange Places for Secret Radios	81
	Saved from a Firing Squad	82
Pt. 3	Hitler's Empire under Siege
	Old Popski Invades a German Headquarters	87
	The GI with the Too-Short Pants	90
	The New York Subway Connection	94
	Nose-Thumbing at the Germans	96
	The Chef Had Bombs on His Menu	97
	Spying from a Church Steeple	98
	The Black-Hearted Devils	99
	A Scheme to Go under German Lines	103
	A New Baby Stymies Normandy Planning	103
	Sabotage Campaign by Railway Men	105
	A Close Encounter with Two Jungle Beasts	106
	"Baby Sergeant York"	109
	A Millionairess Resistance Leader	109
	A Woman OSS Agent and "Cuthbert"	111
	Panzer Watchers and Phony Laundries	112
	The Supersecret X Troop	114
	Miracle at a Normandy Convent	115
	A Luftwaffe Pilot Declines to Take Bait	115
	Jealousy Thwarts a German Scheme	116
	A British POW Saves His Captor's Life	117
Pt. 4	Beginning of the End
	"Hell, We're Halfway to Berlin!"	121
	Alone in a German-Held Town	123
	Two Admirals Go Souvenir Hunting	125
	An American General's Strange Odyssey	128
	Mission: Kidnap Field Marshal Rommel	131
	A Soviet Spying Mission Fizzles	133
	A "Dead" GI Returns	134
	Operation Sauerkraut	137
	A POW Haul in a Saloon	139
	"The Madman of St. Malo"	140
	The "Terrorist" Was a Lady	142
	Jeds behind the French Riviera	143
	The Mysterious Lady in Red	146
	An Escape by Eight "Policemen"	149
	An Endangered Pilot Is Saved	152
	Shooting Up an "Iron Kraut"	155
	Hiding a "Pregnant" Glider Pilot	156
	The "Lone Raider" on the Prowl	158
	A Secret Mission in the Alps	162
Pt. 5	Peace at Last
	"League of Lonely War Women"	167
	Curious Doings in a POW Camp	167
	POWs Parachute into the Reich	169
	The Good Samaritan of Leyte Gulf	171
	"Scarface Otto" Creates Mass Hysteria	172
	A POW Colonel Takes Command	176
	An Allied Spy's Dilemma	179
	Marooned amid the Foe	180
	Trapped in an Attic for Eight Days	183
	Love and War at a German Post Office	187
	MacArthur "Visits" a Japanese CP	188
	A Patrol's "Pigeon Air Force"	190
	A German Boy-Soldier Saves Two GIs	194
	A Scheme to Trigger an Uprising	197
	Uninvited "Guests" on Corregidor	198
	Eavesdropping behind Japanese Positions	200
	Eisenhower's Spy in Berlin	201
	Father Sam and His Hidden Radio	204
	Intelligence Coup on a Train	206
	Nazi Frogmen on the Rhine	208
	VIP Hostages Saved by Fate	210
	A Stroll through 145,000 Germans	211
	Mobilizing Twenty-Eight Million Civilian Killers	214
	Notes and Sources	219
	Index	231