One of his favorite OSS stories involved a colleague sent to occupied France to destroy a seemingly impenetrable German tank at a key crossroads. The French resistance found that grenades were no use.
The OSS man, fluent in German and dressed like a French peasant, walked up to the tank and yelled, "Mail!"
The lid opened, and in went two grenades.
Click through to read how Hall handled the surrender of a German colonel. Via.
Here's a longer obituary in the NY Times, which convinced me to add Hall's book You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
to my Amazon wish list.
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