Operation Green Up. An operation carried out by a special group of men, many have called the real life in glorious bastards.

A reference to the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film in which a group of US Jewish soldiers plot to assassinate high up Nazi leaders.

Operation Green Up wasn't exactly like the Hollywood blockbuster.

No one was catching Nazis and carbon swastikers into their foreheads. Hitler doesn't get sub machine gun down in a burning theater that also gets blown up.

Got to love Tarantino's over the top death sequences.

There was no assassination plan, but a lot of daring, cinematic and incredibly courageous moments did go down.

There was a cast of characters that you know feel more like Hollywood creations and real people sometimes.

It was an amazing high risk high stakes operation that did truly involve some Jewish men risking their lives parachuting in behind enemy lines to quote kill some Nazis.

They may not have been pulling off executions in the woods, but they did help give the allies valuable intel that saved a whole bunch of lives.

Short version of their story is this two Jewish refugees to the United States living in Brooklyn, Frederick Mayer 23, Hans Wienberg 22, end up in the office of strategic services, the OSS for runner to the CIA and parachute deep behind Nazi lines into the Austrian province of Tyrol in February of 1945.

Their mission to compile reports on German rail traffic over the Brenner pass between Italy and Austria and make sure the Germans don't have a secret alpine fortress and the intel they could glean there would help shape the allies plans for a final World War II showdown with Nazi Germany.

A third man also parachuted in with them, Franz Wienberg, a very marked lieutenant who had belatedly come to his sentences about the tyrannical anti-Semitic sociopathic nature of Adolf Hitler and his war.

Operation Greenup ended up bringing the allies important information that shattered some troublesome propaganda.

The Germans had concentrated a large number of men and weapons in the South.

They could have extended World War II's bloodshed by months leading to possibly tens of thousands of additional deaths.

Not only that, but after being captured and tortured by Gestapo agents and refusing to give any intel, Frederick Mayer also negotiated the peaceful surrender of Innsbruck, the Tyrolean provincial capital to the US

7th Army on May 3rd 1945 saving even more lives.

He even ended up getting after with standing some brutal torture where he gave up zero secrets, some of his captors to surrender to him.

Dude was a gutter fighter, which will make sense by the end of this episode.

Operation Greenup was one of the OSS's most successful intel missions of World War II.

And we're sucking this little gnome, but very important piece of history right here, right now on another World War, always fun to rehash the Nazis going down,

military edition of TimeSuck.

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