OSS #Jedburghs: paratroopers sent into Nazi-occupied Europe to coordinate arms & supplies, train partisans in sabotage, & defeat Third Reich
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#Jedburghs trained in: amphibious ops skiing mountain climbing radio ops small arms navigation hand-to-hand combat explosives espionage -
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#Jedburgh team carried a radio: a "Jed Set," which was critical for communicating w Special Forces HQ in Londonpic.twitter.com/es5MjWIDGu
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First Operation
#JEDBURGH team deployed night before D-Day. More than 90 teams parachuted into France in 1944.pic.twitter.com/W8eLKdB7fG
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One of the most famous
#Jedburghs was William Colby, he would become CIA Director. At age 24, he led team into occupied France in Aug 1944. -
The son of an
@USArmy officer, Colby attended@Princeton &@Columbia before joining the military.#Jedburghpic.twitter.com/MpKGWHAWNq
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He cheated on an eye exam to become a paratrooper. Jump school & French language skills made him a good candidate for
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Colby casually described
#Jedburghs mission: “to harass Germans as much as possible…ambushes, blowing up bridges, that sort of thing.” -
1945: Colby led
#OSS special ops team into Norway to sabotage German rail lines & prevent German efforts to reinforce homeland from north. -
Colby’s team “was 1st & only combined ski-parachute op ever mounted by
@USArmy” in#WWII. http://1.usa.gov/1PbdO3v pic.twitter.com/D8vpjzRdHx
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Legend of the
#Jedburghs http://1.usa.gov/1TUoPHA pic.twitter.com/7MHvB7YyIj
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@RAFscopie@CIA@ric_cole If you think Op Loyton is interesting, you'd be interested in "Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, . . ."
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@CIA Funny how tone deaf you are these days. You're the evil empire. You created the rebels. Now get us out of this mess or go away.
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