But most don’t know the story of the Jedburghs and other OSS operatives that laid the groundwork for D-Day. These spies, Allied resistance fighters, and saboteurs had been operating in the shadows in France for months identifying weaknesses in Hilter’s Atlantic Wall, blowing up rail lines, and as Winston Churchill said, “setting Europe ablaze”. After the invasion these operative kept up their work until the fall of Nazi empire. The modern day CIA, Navy Seals, and other and Military Special Forces are the inheritors of these early “special operations.”