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avorite War Stories
(The favorite war story of Frank Singiser, Mutual News Analyst, whose article, "Write Back at You/' appears on page 42.)
Between the time that Hitler declared war on Soviet Russia and the beginning of American lend-lease to the Soviets, the Moscow Government bought certain badly needed supplies in the United States, which were to be paid for in American gold.
One such payment of six million dollars was shipped aboard a British cruiser which was sent to the bottom by German U-Boats.
The Soviets asked no special consideration in view of the wartime loss of their first shipment.
A few weeks later the Soviets asked that they themselves be allowed to ship the second six million in gold to a port in Alaska.
Our government agreed, asking merely th.it the Soviets nutity us a week before the Russian ship was to arrive, so our coatt defenses in Alaska could be warned.
During the week selected, a small non-descript Russian boat of less than a hundred tons, manned by five Russians, approached the designated Alaskan port.
The Treasury Department meanwhile had sent a special agent to Alaska to receive the Russian payment. He was expecting a much larger and more impressive vessel and asked the five Russians: "Where's the gold?"
In reply the smiling Russian Captain ordered his crew of four to move a large pile of garbage heaped on the vessel's forward deck. There beneath the refuse heap lay wooden boxes containing the six million of gold bullion.
(This one is told by Sydney AAeseley, Mutual News Commentator:)
My story starts many months before the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944. Day and night in London, the Allied high command burned the midnight oil planning for the all-important "D-Day."
The Allies, aware the Nazis were trying to discover the date and the plans for the landing they knew was to come, formulated plans to throw the Germans off the true date of the channel crossing — a difficult assignment.
In a high domed room in London, Allied Intelligence finally iiit upon a scheme. They planted some faked plans on a dead body of a British Naval officer.
One foggy night, the body, fully uniformed, was dropped Into the Channel opposite Calais, at the time Intelligence knew the Channel tide would carry the corpse to the other side of the Channel held by the Germans.
As the Allies anticipated, the Nazis discovered the body of this officer and dragged it from the water. They examined his pockets for the usual documents, which seemed to be in order. There were personal letters, membership cards and money, as well as the forged and erroneous secret plans for the night invasion of Europe.
It can now be told that those forged Allied plans helped pave the way for the highly successful invasion of Normandy — which in turn brought the Allies to their present victorious position in Germany today.