Vanaman

He then sent Vanaman to Washington to get rid of him.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

No one in the Allied command structure would have agreed to this craven deal with a man Vanaman and Spivey considered, in their equal abhorrence of the communists, “a Great German.”

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

He wanted Vanaman to take a message to Eisenhower conveying his desire to negotiate—by secret radio codes—a separate peace with the Western Allies.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

From there Vanaman was flown to France to meet with General Spaatz.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

Berger would do this, he told Spivey and Vanaman, to save his country from the Bolshevik beasts.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

After arranging for Red Cross food relief, Berger summoned Vanaman and Spivey to his heavily guarded headquarters.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

Vanaman had injured his back on his fall into Germany, and at night he would tear off small pieces of his bandages and tape them over his mouth to prevent himself from talking in his sleep and revealing his sensational secret.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

The highest-ranking Air Force officer captured during the war, Vanaman was brought to Berlin, treated with deference, and told he would be sent to a comfortable castle in Dresden for special prisoners.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

Unknown to Alkire, General Vanaman and Colonel Spivey had already taken care of this.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

Vanaman agreed to work with Berger, but only after Berger promised to stop the forced POW marches and speed up the delivery of food to the men.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006