World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Der O'Glock, Vat Ist?

The British War Office released some information last week which had given it an acute case of the shakes. Recently two members of the British Security Police dressed themselves up in German uniforms and started out in broad British daylight to see whether Britain was on the qui vive. Bareheaded, without overcoats, one in the blue of a Luftwaffe officer, the other in German infantry grey, they first took a pleasant bus ride from London to Gerrard's Cross 17 miles away. They talked socially with their fellow passengers in guttural, Germanic English. One passenger thought they were Russians, others favored...

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