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…