London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1945, London, Middlesex                                The phantom wreaks his revenge Snow photos from the front yank double talk comes in Handy 1945 lines strike the the the Man who risks death raise hell for the krauts far behind the enemy is the hero of this last of a series of three on the French first by Jack Caldwell War week staff writer on the French first army germans probably have their own name for but it was an american Liaison officer who dubbed him the name he is known by the 39yearold leather faced Captain from Northern led a French commando band on daring sorties behind enemy lines since Landing in Normandy on three limes he has been by machine gun twice by Rifle each time through the Woods about on Quarter he has come Back to take direct charge of his to most of the troops in this area he is a those who have seen him slip through Jerry lines and return with vital information on enemy plans know he is no the phantom is no armchair Obser been Given Tough assign but each time his commando patrol would creep through to carry out their Hes taken the he never assigns a danger tvs task to any of his he Calls for Volun Teers and always gets More than the Job Calls the one Job i he is selecting a patrol front the Volun those i have to pass up for a took disappointed As when i have to Tell them  have to wait for the next the  officer will Tell you his daring cunning is promulgated by his love of adventure and his inherent hatred of the but his close intimates confide that the phantoms burning lust to kill Ger mans goes deeper than death of his wife with 15 other patriots who were shot by the nazis in the Early Days of the invasion after an enemy ammunition dump mysteriously exploded on the outskirts of their Village North of his eighty Earold daughter was living with his wife at the been unheard of most of the commandos serving under the phantom use false names so As not to reveal their True identity to the that would Cost the mile inside the German lines when the phantom halted signalled to us to hug the for the first few minutes All i could detect was the familiar sound of artillery and the chatter of machine guns in front of i listened More carefully and then i heard the Distant purr of an we remained Low until we could see the its lights moving slowly turned around and set off for our own we passed some Jerry infantrymen about a Hundred Yards up the Road but it was dark and they let us pass without any funny we didst run into any trouble until we were nearing our own lines and one of our Fellows turned a machine gun on All three of us leaned out of the car to wave White chechen mufflers we wore around our we Man aged to convince our troops we were harmless and got through the phantoms ability to speak German has netted a considerable Batch of on one evasion he crawled out on to the front line and called through a Loudspeaker to German troops a few Hundred Yards in front of him this is warrant officer i was taken prisoner last the French Are very Good to the meals Are excellent War is ended for rile and i have no it will be the same for you if you come Over throw Down your arms before it is too within an hour 23 carrying their arms and came Over to the French one attempt was made recently by the germans to kill the phantom behind the French lines a few Miles outside of we were sitting around a Small fire the Edge of a Woods awaiting our next one of the commandos re when an old peasant woman came out of the Woods from the direction of Belfort with a steaming pot of quite a number of civilians were still living in the area despite artillery so we we rent too surprised to see the woman offered us some it looked damned Good but just to make sure it want poisoned we had her take a sip she seemed such a Nice old about things in re marked that her husband was a prisoner in she emptied the pot of Coffee in each of our canteen were seven of including the we chatted while we drank and then the old lady said it was time she was getting Back we thanked her for her Shook hands and then she took off in the direction in which she had several minutes later one of the Fellows noticed she had left her Coffee pot he picked it up to return it to her when one of the other Fellows suddenly jumped to his grabbed the and hurled it off across the Field with the maybe the Damn thing is More than just a Coffee Lucky for us he was suspicious As we stood around the Fife looking at the discarded wondering what to the thing exploded with a blast that nearly knocked us off our a Check of the fragments showed that a time bomb had ingeniously been placed in a compartment at the Bottom of the those germans sure have a lot of another commando recalled a close escape they had during one we had penetrated several Hundred she has the Road that Lay about 25 feet to our s the phantom edged silently to Ward tie and Wheir the car Drew alongside of him he called out in the Driver must lives of their relatives and friends held have it was a German for he Drew to a Quick an in concentration one of the phantoms favorite War prizes is a nazi staff which he uses As his personal hell Tell you a German general gave it to me As a gift when i visited p his Camp some time but a Young Corporal who witnessed the incident related the True one shortly before Day he the officer sitting alongside of him apparently figured it was a trap because he hoisted a Light machine gun Over the ledge of the autos he never had a Chance to How because the phantom silenced both Driver and officer with two shots from his further up the Road we heard gut Tural voices but we didst wait to in and one other fellow were returning we dumped the bodies out from a scouting Mission just outside on the climbed into the of we were making our Way phantom was at the French sub machine guns spitting charge nazi held alsatian Railroad the daring group cautiously Edge across the rubble strewn routing remaining Yards into a Woods abandoned by Jerry the Day he when we reached an opening in a clump of fir empty ration broken equip ment were strewn about the we scouted around but we didst find any one of the Fellows spotted a Brief Case hanging from a Branch about five feet above the he cautiously approached to within ten feet of the looked around for any wires or other evidence that would betray the presence of a Booby he gingerly walked closer and was about five feet away when a terrific explosion beneath his feet blew him to the enemy had not Booby trapped the Brief Case but had mined the area around the that a trick weve encountered on Many occasions since but that first mistake by one of our commandos has made us even More wary of the the phantoms commandos Are a picked Bunch of to strike behind enemy lines with the dead Liness of a killing disrupting communication blowing up ammunition trains and in other ways harassing the nazis is their and they love As one american officer put a fellow has to be As murderous As they come to qualify for the Story goes that one Young moroc can Soldier who had been begging per Mission for weeks to join the finally was allowed by the phantom to accompany him on a the phantom want exactly sold on this one of the commandos but he was touched with the Fellows persistence and decided to give him a fourteen of including the moroc set off one night for the enemy lines Mission was to Check up on the germans troop strength in a Hilly sector of the we had gone about a carefully making our Way through a winding when suddenly All hell broke Rifle and machine gun fire opened up on us from both three of our men were hit with the first but the rest of us managed to stay Low and Man Euver Back in the direction of our we were making Good headway when a machine gun 50 feet to the right of us suddenly blasted away at blocking our we fell figuring out our next move and not realizing the moroccan was crawling silently through the underbrush in the direction of the enemy machine gun that until he was about fifteen feet from the then he jumped to his hurled a hand that silenced the machine gun and killed three of five germans entrenched the remaining two germans grabbed rifles and pumped a steady Stream of bullets into the onrushing we didst dare fearful of hitting our own the moroccan lashed out with his plunging it deep into the Chest of one of the the other German dropped his Rifle and dashed off but he didst get very the moroccan picked up the discarded aimed carefully and dropped the fleeing Jerry in his the highly whispered to the Man closest to him one of our from now the moroccan turned toward took four slumped to the he died a few minutes