IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE

About the Book

A true story of an OSS Intelligence Officer by Captain Jim Hudson of his encounter with the famous aviatrix, Hanna Reitsch just a few days after VE Day. A declaration of Victory in Europe announced to the world that the second member of the Axis had fallen in unconditional surrender. He was ready for the final chapter on this wily enemy that had plagued the Allies ever since that sneak attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. On that fateful day that stills lives in Infamy, Lieutenant Jim knew that he was in for a long war. Five years moving from battlefield to battlefield in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, Albania, and Austria had him ready for anything the Nazi threw at him, but having the diminutive German flier as a guest in his Austrian Headquarters of his as CO of OSS Detachment A2 in the Tyrol was beyond his expectations. She had done it all. She was called the greatest woman flyer of the world, and she had just come from visiting Adolf Hitler in his bunker where he had holed up for his final stand. This story I had to hear, and see from where her courage had come. Could it be a clue that her insistent passionate cry was that she did it in the Name of the Luftwaffe. Could we see in this strange, strong woman a role model, or should we look further? We examined each trait and compared it with our own. Victory in War is not as easy as it may appear. Was there a message in that oft repeated declaration, IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE? We are in World War III in the 21st Century, as we face another sinister enemy of the wispy undercover world of TERROR, did this war experience teach a better way to win this War? Could we go BEYOND OSS? Perhaps! Could we say, IN THE NAME OF THE WORLD!. AND FIGHT FOR IT?

Captain Jim tells other tales of war in his other books, THE SHIP THAT WON THE WORLD WAR II; BEYOND BOSS; THE SPY THRILLER, THE VICTORY MAIL OF WORLD WAR II, V-Mail, the Funny Mail., and this one called IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE.

About the Author

Captain Hudson volunteered for active duty in July, 1941 as a Platoon Leader for the 28th Infantry Division, four months before Pearl Harbor, and was overseas over four years throughout World War II. His varied career included the first troop movement to Africa of the 9th US Air Force; established the first US Army Post Offices in Africa as USAFIME Theater Postal Officer; as USAFIME Theater Photographic Officer covered the battle for North Africa against German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel; as Theater Censor, selected and authorized photos to be provided to the World Press for coverage of these important events of the Cairo and Teheran Conferences of the Big Three, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin; Senior Intelligence Officer for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), mad 33 espionage missions behind the German lines in Albania; as Commanding Officer OSS, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, in the Denazification of Germany and the apprehension of German War Criminals, and the famous aviatrix and German Luftwaffe consultant, Hannah Reitsch. Captain Hudson has written three other books: TWO PERSONS FOR ONE JOB, an original plan for increasing the efficiency of government and Private Organizations; THE SHIP THAT WON WORLD WAR II,, Hudson was the Official Photographer on the troopship, the Pasteur, carrying 5,000 GI fighting men to Egypt as the first large contingent of Americans in Africa to form the 9th US Air Force; including the 57th Fighter Group, the 12th Bombardier Group of B-25 (Mitchell) Bombers, and the 98th Bombardier Group of B-17 (Flying Fortress) Bombers ands B-24 Bombers (Liberator). BEYOND OSS., his 33 missions infiltrating into Albania during its occupation by the German Army, Gestapo, and SS Troops. This included the rescue of 13 American nurses and the US Air Force crew, after several months of hiding in peasant homes after they had made a forced landing into Albania.