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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1590200" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Did you know.....(Julia Child)</p><p>As a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, she typed 10,000 names on white note cards to keep track of officers. For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Rescue Equipment Section (ERES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_repellent" target="_blank">shark repellent</a> needed to ensure that sharks would not explode <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon" target="_blank">ordnance</a> targeting German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat" target="_blank">U-boats</a>. In 1944 she was posted to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandy" target="_blank">Kandy</a>, Ceylon (now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">Sri Lanka</a>), where her responsibilities included "registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications" for the OSS's clandestine stations in Asia. She was later posted to China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat. For her service, Child received an award that cited her many virtues, including her "drive and inherent cheerfulness." As with other OSS records, her file was declassified in 2008, and, unlike other files, her complete file is available online.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1590200, member: 1246"] Did you know.....(Julia Child) As a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, she typed 10,000 names on white note cards to keep track of officers. For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Rescue Equipment Section (ERES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_repellent']shark repellent[/URL] needed to ensure that sharks would not explode [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon']ordnance[/URL] targeting German [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat']U-boats[/URL]. In 1944 she was posted to [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandy']Kandy[/URL], Ceylon (now [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka']Sri Lanka[/URL]), where her responsibilities included "registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications" for the OSS's clandestine stations in Asia. She was later posted to China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat. For her service, Child received an award that cited her many virtues, including her "drive and inherent cheerfulness." As with other OSS records, her file was declassified in 2008, and, unlike other files, her complete file is available online. [/QUOTE]
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