Dad’s Secret War: France 1944

Narrated by Kevin Bacon.

This film, based on the best-selling book Scholars of Mayhem by Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith, is about two Top Secret WWII organizations – American and British organizations responsible for silent, unseen, highly classified missions, of critical importance to defeating the Nazi’s and Hirohito’s Japan. Soon after War II, OSS became the CIA, founded in July 1947, becoming the foundation of our current Intelligence network. The British SOE during WWII is now MI6, continuing its long history of intelligence services.

Classified Top Secret by the American OSS and Most, Most Secret by Britain’s SOE, the few remaining records were partially declassified in 1998. The actions of these two organizations – their operations and missions and the women and men who volunteered to be secret agents, each likely not to survive, their collective courage, risks, failures and successes continues to be learned and always to astound.

Who were these women and men, our secret agents of World War II? What were their sacrifices and impacts upon World War II? Much of the current public perception of OSS/SOE, even now, is based upon utterly fictional events, enhanced or blended films of fantasy, produced after WWII with at best a loose association to facts including classics like The Guns of Navarone, the Bridge On the River Kwai, Where Eagles Dare, Inglorious Bastards – and many others, and obviously all the James Bond series.