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The Fourth Dimension of Warfare: An Interview With an OSS Veteran
John Singlaub served as a covert operative in Europe and the Pacific. Below is Bob Bergin s interview with Singlaub, first published in 2008.
Here s What You Need to Know: Major General John K. Singlaub was a young airborne lieutenant when he took up an offer from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to become engaged in “hazardous duty behind enemy lines.” He was a participant in Operation Jedburgh and parachuted into occupied France to organize, train, and lead a French Resistance unit. When the Germans were driven from his operational area, he was concerned that he might miss the rest of the war and volunteered for duty in the Far East. He was sent to China, where he trained a guerrilla unit to operate in Japanese-occupied Indochina and just before the Japanese surrender led a dangerous mission to rescue allied POWs on Hainan Island off the Chinese coast. The operations carried out by General Singlaub and
George C. Marshall: Architect of Victory in World War II
General George C. Marshall shaped the wartime U.S. Army and advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout World War II.
Here s What You Need to Know: Churchill hailed Marshall in 1945 as “the true organizer of victory” and called him “the noblest Roman of them all.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was disturbed in the autumn of 1938 by the Munich agreement, at which the rights of Czechoslovakia were signed away, and by reports of mounting air strength in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Shortly after the infamous accord on September 29, the president instituted a series of White House meetings at which he and his military advisers discussed the ominous situation in Europe. One of the early formal sessions was attended by the Assistant Secretary of War, the Solicitor General, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Army and Air Corps Chiefs of Staff, and a tall, blue-eyed, and courtly brigadier general named George C.