SPOTSYLVANIA, Va., May 17, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- A true story told by a living 91-year-old OSS Intelligence Officer, Captain Jim Hudson, who apprehended the famous German aviatrix, Hanna Reitsch, just after VE Day, May 8, 1945. Victory in Europe announced to the world that Germany had been forced into unconditional surrender. Jim was ready for this final chapter on the wily enemy that had plagued the Allies ever since the sneak attack by the Japanese.
On December 7, 1941, that fateful day that still 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 Nazis threw at him, including the diminutive German flier as a guest in his Austrian Headquarters, in Zell am See.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Captain Jim Hudson was an American spy during WWII with the most missions behind the German lines. He was the Senior Intelligence Officer in Albania during the heaviest military action, in 1944. He was responsible for keeping the Allied Armies fighting in Italy, aware of the movements of the German First Mountain Division, just down to Albania from action in the Battle of Stalingrad, Russia.
Captain Jim was an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) secret agent. Before WWII he had been a Platoon Leader in the 28th Infantry Division. After Pearl Harbor, he was assigned as the first American Officer to establish V-Mail Service worldwide -- a unique postal service guaranteed to get every letter to or from an overseas Soldier, Airman, Sailor or Marine. He established the first V-Mail station in Cairo, Egypt.
"Hanna Reitsch has done it all," says Hudson. "She was called the greatest woman flyer of the world, and she had just come from the underground bunker of Adolf Hitler where he had holed up for his final stand. He wanted Hanna to fly Colonel General Ritter von Greim, Goering's successor, around Europe to command the last Luftwaffe attack to save Germany. This story I had to hear, and see from where her courage had come. For Germans to fly anyone, anywhere in the summer of 1945, was virtually impossible, for the Allied planes had total air supremacy. 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?"
Hudson's command examined each of her character traits and compared it with their own. Victory in War is not as easy as it may appear. It was more than weapons, airplanes, and bombs. Was there a message in Hanna's oft-repeated declaration, IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE?
"We are now in World War III in the 21st Century," says Hudson, "as we face another sinister enemy of the wispy undercover world of TERROR. As big as WWII was, this one is bigger. It will leave no part of life untouched; human and vegetable, (Greenhouse) human and wildlife, (CO2) human and geology, (Ozone), human and astronomy, (Star Wars).
"Did this WWII experience teach a better way to win this WWIII? Can we go BEYOND OSS? Further than IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE. Perhaps we can say, IN THE NAME OF THE WORLD! AND FIGHT FOR IT? FOR WWIII IS A FIGHT FOR LIFE FOR ALL HUMANITY."
IN THE NAME OF THE LUFTWAFFE * by CAPTAIN JAMES W. HUDSON
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