Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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If you know the story of World War II, it was not
And so he hooks up with what's left of the Czechoslovak resistance there in France and follows the British retreat and manages somehow to talk his way onto a boat and gets over to Britain and gets hooked up with the Czech government in exile there in London.
Becomes disenchanted with the government in exile pretty quickly and starts... Well, yeah, so we'll get to that next part in a minute, actually.
So then...
He's working at first for the Czech government in exile, gets a little disenchanted with them, and so joins the British Army.
And he's part of the Normandy invasion, and he fought.
He was in heavy combat all the way to Berlin.
You know, he won the second highest medal that the British Army gives out, not just to foreign volunteers, but to anybody.
So it's the Distinguished Service Cross or the Navy Cross here in the U.S.
The MC.
You don't get those just for showing up on time every day.
He got it for storming a machine gun nest and saving a bunch of people's lives.
So physically courageous guy, obviously very resourceful, ballsy guy to make it across Europe at such a young age and do all these things.
Um, after the war's over and we occupy Germany, he goes to work for British intelligence.
Um, first as a translator, I don't know how many languages he spoke back then, but later on, he allegedly was fluent at nine.
Maybe that's an exaggeration, but if he was fluent in five and functional in four, that's pretty damn impressive, you know?
And so he was a guy who he had connections behind the Iron Curtain that was emerging.
He's from that side of the line.
He was a soldier who had fought valiantly for the British.
And so now he's working for British intelligence and he's actually pretty valuable to him.
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