The Gestapo major cursed the guard for being a stupid pig and finally gave up. He had more important things to do than waste his time on this’stupid French peasant,’ and she was probably too dull to know much anyway. If he had taken better care of the rooms where his prisoners were kept, he might have found the bloodstained piece of glass and made some very interesting deductions.

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After a week in the hospital, Jeannette was released. Instead of taking refuge in Gerardmer and awaiting its liberation, she courageously chose to make the perilous journey back to the American lines. We were elated at her return, since we had given her up for lost. Her report on enemy dispositions and movements, based on personal observation, was timely and useful.

The official report of the mission rather laconically termed her ruse ‘worthy of note.’ It certainly was. In the tightest of spots, Jeannette had, figuratively and literally, used her head. *

This article was written by Wayne Nelson and originally appeared in the June 1997 issue of World War II Magazine.

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