ing, confessed everything to her American boy.
Young Jerry, deeply in love himself, was heartbroken at the thought that, having just discovered the love of his life, he must now turn his goddess over to the OSS.
But Hildur, having lost nothing of her native shrewdness, convinced both Jerry and the OSS that she would be more valuable as a double agent than as a dead spy.
She freely revealed everything she knew about the German spy network in England, along with codes and other valuable information. When she volunteered to discover the truth about the Kugleblitz, she demanded only that all credit for her work must be shared with her lover, young Jerry.
Having received confirmation of her remarkable value, the Allied spymasters agreed. After a sad parting with her American, Hildur went back to occupied France - supposedly working for the Nazis to uncover a Free French spy network passing on secrets about the Kugleblitz, in actuality to discover and pass on those secrets herself.
Every day, at a set time, Captain Selznik flew his high-speed P-38 fighter over northern France, while Hildur, using a low-powered radio with a directional antenna, transmitted to him what little she had been able to discover about the
Kugleblitz.
This daily contact in coded dots and dashes was the only communication between the young lovers.
On a gray day in mid-April, Captain Selznik received an electrifying message, uncoded and "in the clear:" The Nazis had deliberately
destroyed the Kugleblitz factory, and its personnel and contents had been loaded into a giant German cargo plane, which was even now taking off for Berlin!
The implications were obvious, and potentially disastrous. The weapon had been perfected, and would soon be beyond Allied reach in the underground factories of Germany!
There was no time to mount an attack from England. Young Jerry's plane was the only Allied aircraft within effective striking range. Although already low on fuel, he streaked to the attack.
On the ground, Hildur knew her lover would be facing overwhelming odds - the German transport plane was escorted by a squadron of crack German pilots.
Driving to the German air base, she used her special pass, signed by the head of the Gestapo, to gain admission, hurried to the airfield and commandeered a fighter plane - knocking unconscious the pilot who tried to stop her.
Having trained as a pilot for her espionage work, she took off and quickly overtook the Nazi air armada, since the German squadron had to circle slowly to match the lumbering pace of the transport.
Stationing herself at the end of the Nazi line, Hildur violated the cardinal rule of combat flying - she broke radio silence, broadcasting one clear call to her American lover, a final farewell that gave away their position. As the Nazi pilots jostled in confusion, Captain Selznik's Lightning plunged from the clouds, all guns blazing.
Ignoring the hail of bullets streaking at him from all directions, Captain Selznick charged straight at the huge transport, his guns pouring a stream of death into its cockpit, shredding