Who Stole the Train?
By Ben Games
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This short, nonfiction semi-biographical story from WWII tells of an Army Officer and five enlisted men racing the Russians to capture a Japanese experimental laser cannon. The weapon is located on a cliff overlooking the Sea of Japan. Read this entertaining account to find out who ultimately won the race and the extremes they went to in order to complete their mission!
Ben Games
Ben R. Games, PhD, Major, CW-4, TCNA-6, flew bombers and night fighters during WWII, then Jet Fighters for the USAF during the Korean War, and Chinook helicopters in Vietnam for the 1st Cavalry Division. He is a member of the North American Mach Busters Club and of the Distinguished Flying Cross Society with 737 recorded combat hours. After 35 years he retired from military flying in 1978 and later became the manager of the Turks & Caicos National Airline.He served in Vietnam as a pilot with the 228 Aviation Battalion, Company B, 1st Cavalry Division, and is a life member of Army Aviation Class 43K, 1st Cavalry Division Association, MOAA, USAF Association, VHPA, DFC Society, National Guard Association of the US, Camp Grayling Officers Club, VFW, American Legion, and the DAV.During his military service Ben was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism, Bronze Star, 14 Air Medals, Army Commen-dation Medal with “V” Device, National Defense Service Medal w/3 Bronze Service Stars, MI Medals of Valor w/Oak leaf cluster, two Legion of Merit. Vietnam Campaign Medal w/1960 device, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross w/Palm Unit Citation, and Republic of Vietnam Civil Actions Medal of Honor with First Class Unit Citation.During the past fifty years, stories of his flying adventures have been read by people around the world. They range from a child’s Christmas story, biographical adventures, to science fiction.
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Who Stole the Train? - Ben Games
WHO STOLE THE TRAIN?
BEN R. GAMES, PhD
SMASHWORDS EBOOK EDITION
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©Copyright, 2009, Ben R. Games, PhD
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WHO STOLE THE TRAIN?
by Ben R. Games, PhD
Author’s Statement FACTS Prologue Story Historical Documents Dedication
www.FideliPublishing.com
An adventure of a citizen soldier and patriot working in the shadows during WW-II.
Edited by Fideli Publishing, Historical Documents & Pictures from WW-II by the author.
STATEMENT
This story is a semi-biographical tale taken from the Journals written in 1945-46 by 1st lieutenant Ben R. Games, US Army, at the end of WW-II and during the start of the occupation of Japan. like any story written as a novel, time has been compressed and the hours of boredom just disappear.
Most citizen soldiers served in military units under commanders all subjected to the Articles of War and the US military code. There were also some soldiers who served in the shadows under a different set of rules. As the story unfolds, it will soon become an adventure that may make the reader glad he wasn’t there.
The author is not attempting to change history; this story is based on one of his adventures during WW-II. History is a window looking into the future. One can change history only if he acts today, because tomorrow locks yesterday into the history file.
DEDICATED TO OSS/CIA CONTRACT AGENTS
(The Patriots who work in shadows)
A special thanks to Harry Alexandra, OSS
who taught the author the need to gather foreign
intelligence.
Especially to all the American and Japanese
Citizen Soldiers who fought, lived and died
under The Warrior Code.
BUSHIDO
To Errol S. Fletcher,
nephew of the Yasutaka Ohno
Priest & Servant of the Suwa Jinja Shrine
GD, Security Chief
Of the Games Clan.
TRAIN FACTS
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was formed soon after the beginning of WWII to gather information and assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in counter-intelligence for the protection of the United States. It also operated as an intelligence gathering organization plus assisting in direct sabotage of the enemy. After WW-II ended a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created by congress to be directed by a person appointed by the President and confirmation by the Senate. The OSS was disbanded, but many of its senor operators became members of the new CIA. That’s a FACT.
During WW-II many of the OSS agents recruited were men and women who were already members of the military services. They worked from the shadows and reported to a controller or handler while performing their military duties. Some worked with other governments all around the world, but never in an official capacity. Most kept their own name but used various ranks, call signs, and military ID numbers. Many men and women who worked in the shadows were funded by accounts set aside for each mission they worked on and never knew that they were working for one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world. That’s a FACT.
The CIA hires its own men and women who work directly for the Agency. Some who became Oriented as Intelligent Officers are called Jewelers, and most were recruited from colleges. Many more were recruited for a specific job and were trained by the CIA at Blue U. Some called themselves mercenaries, but to most who worked with them they were dangerous men and women who had entered a nether world of shadows. Their bureaucratic title was Contract Agent. The government agencies could pay them almost any wage and they were often provided military titles of convenience. That’s a FACT.
Some were given an OSS/CIA Pseudonym for a name so all their personal history was hidden or changed. Often, even recognition of the names under which they lived and operated as part of their identities was denied them. Sometimes before or even after a mission, the individual’s military, medical, and combat records were sanitized to fit the needs of their next assignments or disguised to prevent other countries from discovering what had really happened. That’s a FACT.
This story took place before the CIA was organized; when the OSS had a list of pseudonym names and call signs with an ID number when it was needed. One of the names was Gilbert H. Moriggia. The name was retired after WW-II ended. It was later reactivated by the CIA during the Vietnam War in 1968 and assigned to Contract Agent Joseph B. kelly, an Interrogator of North Vietnamese and Vietcong in 1967. That’s a FACT.
A US Army Aviator 1st lieutenant, Ben R. Games, who had the Call Sign Paper Doll,
once served in the US Navy as the Master-at-Arms on the USS Sea Cat. The ship was carrying 900 black prisoners. Then he was a platoon leader for the War Crime Commission team hunting Japanese war criminals in the Philippines. After the fighting stopped, he was assigned as an officer in the 1719th Signal Company, and then became a member of the 35th Fighter Squadron (Detachment 2) 5th Air Force, Johnson Field, and Fujigaya Air Field, Japan. The author of Who Stole the Train? has said that if he writes an autobiography of his adventures after the US Army and the US Air Force he will call it a semi-biography because it’s so far out. That’s a FACT.
The author is now over 85 years old, and has a problem trying to convince the VA that poison ivy rash was caused by Agent orange. Between fits of laughter, the VA doctors treated the rash. They kept telling him that soldiers 72 years old should retire in Florida and not parachute into a swamp just because of engine failure. That’s a FACT.
At the start of his military career, the author was a Junior in Elkhart High School, Elkhart, Indiana. In 1942 he joined the Civil Air Patrol there. After completing his Junior year, he took a bus to Seattle, Washington, to be with his invalided mother for the summer. On the 13 August 1942, he joined the Army Reserves and was called to active duty at Fort lewis, Washington. He retired from the Army 17 February 1987, after 44 years, 5 months, 26 days of military service. That’s a FACT.
Three weeks after being called to active duty, the author received a letter thanking him for volunteering and informing him that members of the OSS with his talents were required to be 27 years old, and that he would be contacted as needed. There was also a letter order assigning him as an Army Aviation Student, San Antonio, Texas. That’s a FACT.
The OSS letter failed to inform him what talents he possessed that required only people over the age of 27 years. From that day in December 1942 to the date he was retired from his military service, his life became a series of adventures or misadventures depending on how you view his work. The author’s military assignments were to Service Schools, Colleges, Teaching, and Special Assignments seasoned with moments of stark terror, and long periods in military hospitals. That’s a FACT.
This story is nonfiction, the names of the soldiers working in the author’s team and those lost or wounded in combat were not recorded in the author’s Journals. Some