The OSS Jedburgh Teams, 1944-45
Jedburgh trainees on high bars obstacle course at Milton Hall, England. 1944.
“Surprise, kill, and vanish.”
- Motto of the Jedburgh teams
We have seen them depicted in films about the D-Day landings: small groups of paratroopers landing under the cover of darkness in the French countryside deep behind enemy lines; being met by local French resistance fi…
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