Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous.
Two Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric...
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