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Cogny next joined the underground: he led raids against Italian outposts and spied for the Free French. But Cogny was trapped by a Gestapo decoy less than a year later, and he was out of the war for good. The Gestapo beat him "rudely," as he put it, on seven different occasions ("I succeeded in not talking"); they condemned him to death and finally shipped him off to Buchenwald. While many of his brother-officers were making their names in North Africa, Italy and the Vosges, Cogny was slaving in German road gangs, his head shaven, his weight down from...
...sudden," said Lamar, "I noticed that the ice had sawed the boat in two. The water was aflyin' . . . but we made it back to the blind. We stayed there three or four hours. Finally some old duck came in by mistake. Smith grabbed a gun . . . and hit a decoy...
Newsmen charged that to throw them off the trail prison officials sent a closed van through the prison gate as a decoy. Then, under cover of darkness, they slipped May out. Not until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...
...King held Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid both at fault in the Battle for Leyte Gulf-Halsey for letting himself be drawn off base by a Japanese decoy force, Kinkaid for not making dawn air searches...
...Eddie Molloy, despite a soaking wet ball, completed 11 out of 18 tosses. Ed Woodsum, six foot two inch end, while not outstandingly ast, is an incredibly clever who didn't drop a pass all afternoon. By the end of the first period Molloy was using Woodsum as a decoy and passing to halfback Frank Smith, who also onto the ball with amazing determination...