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The value ofystea waa dramatically shown when an OSS operator0 feet in the air received the followingron an agent speaking from near Lunieh (unessentials deleted free transcript):
"Hello, Vic, this is Freddie calling. eilheim railway junction has from forty to fifty trains passing through all night. In Tfeilhelm proper there are two airplane factories. s the Dornier works and the secondactory making spare parts for planes.
"Poissenberg is nearby. It lo the last coal mine out of which the Germans are now obtaining coal within the Reich to send to Berchtesgaden. The spare airplane parts and the completed parts from the Dornier plant are shipped by rail to Garmisch in the mountains.
"You must absolutely knock out the railway line Vt'eilheia-Peissenberc, Vfeilhedm-Augsburg as soon as possible. This line must be knocked out.
ave something else to say to you. You must not bomb Raisting under any circumstances. The peoplen our side and so is the entire Volkssturm. Raisting, Raisting, do not bomb it, please."
This intelligence was immediately forwarded to the Air Force, which decided to bomb the Vfeilheim target and the nearby Pasing railway station in Munich on the same mission. At the time this raid tooka rather hoavy overcast prevented an immediate estimate of damage from the air.ission was flown to the same agent the night after the bombing. He reported:
ant to thank you for elmost killing me yesterday. as in lauiicheters from the *asing station when it was attacked.
"Now an eyewitness report. Pasing station was hit directly during the bombing attack yesterday Railroad traffic in the direction of the mountains and Garmisch was halted, and is paralyzed. All tracks are destroyed.
"In the double bombing attackeilheim, the station and tracks were hit. Only the aircraft plant Fahrdorf, which we were talking about, was nearly undamaged."
After conversing with the agent,lane dropped to low altitude and photographedeilhein damage. The photographs and the agent's report were delivered to the AA? immediately. The town of Hal sting was not bombed.
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