unite all the French forces in the various garrisons under the leadership of General Giraud. As the General did not trust the British and refused to co-operate with anyone but the Americans, Seraph sailed under the Stars and Stripes - with her crew adopting a much-practised Anglo-American slang in order to appear as American as possible to her valuable passenger.
In the autumn of 1942, a decision was tentatively made to invade Sicily. As the Germans were bound to anticipate that Sicily would be a likely target, the question arose as to how to fool them into deploying their forces elsewhere. As British officers were continually being flown around the coast of Spain to North Africa, a plan was devised to plant a body, carrying false papers, in the sea off Spain - as if coming from a crashed plane. In order to convince a post-mortem that the 'officer' had
