8/4/2023 0 Comments France virtual sailor 7Team HERMIT supported the French Resistance conducting unconventional warfare missions north of the Loire River until mid-September 1944. This article chronicles T/4 Herbert Brucker’s SOE training in the United Kingdom and ends with the airborne insertion of “Team HERMIT” into south central France on. After completing OSS/SO training in the United States, he was detailed to the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Technician Four (T/4) Brucker volunteered for “dangerous duty” to escape training cadre duty and his language skills made him a natural to become an OSS special operative. Brucker excelled in a skill that was critical in the Army, but more so in the OSS. Knowledge of English was not critical for radio operators then because Morse Code (CW) was an international language. His father brought him back to the United States in 1938. 1 While American-born, he was raised from infancy in the bilingual provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in France. Brucker, a pioneer in Special Forces, were discussed in Part II: Pre-WWII–OSS Training 1943. The pre-World War II and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) training experiences of Major Herbert R.
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