NO SURRENDER Special Forces Style is nothing new , but it's embodiement in the individual is what gave us impetus to present this mindset to the public.

The World War II Office of Strategic Service (OSS) Jedburgs in were just one of the OSS's groundbreaking units which were the tip-of-the-spear for modern U.S. Special Forces during World War II. General Jack J. Singlaub(USA Ret.) is an example of a lifetime of what NO SURRENDER is all about! Without the Generals special exploits and in the principal outfit by which ARMY delineates all its special forces forefathers.. and whose actions help convince the Army to come from and create the nomenclature "Green Beret", General Singlaub was Special Forces by virtue that most of his operational experiences were examples of NO SURRENDER in Special Forces they way it was ment to be - life long.

During World War II, then Lieutenant Jack J. Singlaub was part of Office of Strategic Service (OSS) Jedburgh Teams.They were just one of the OSS's groundbreaking units which were the tip-of-the-spear for modern U.S. Special Forces during World War II and General Jack J. Singlaub (USA Ret.) is an example of a lifetime of what that No Surrender is all about...

General Singlaub is a living legend. Born July 10, 1921 in Independence, Cal, he graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles(UCLA) where he was an ROTC cadet colonel. He graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and subsequently served as an instructor on its faculty. He is a graduate of the Air War College.

General Singlaub has had an important military career starting in World War II with the OSS Jed burghs.

At the onset of World War Two then Lieutenant Singlaub joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) ands attended operative School at the Congressional Country Club in Washington.D.C and was quickly dispatched to the UK, as part of a joint British SOE/ OSS Spec Ops group called the Jed burghs.

" Jedburgh" is the name of an operation in World War II in which men from the Office of Strategic Services parachuted into Nazi occupied France to conduct sabotage and guerilla warfare, and to lead French maquis forces against the Germans. The operation took its name from the town in Scotland, where the teams trained.

The Jedburgh teams comprised three men: a leader, an executive officer, and a non-commissioned radio operator. The radio was critical for communicating with headquarters (SO Branch of the OSS, in London). Normally the radio operator was American, and one officer was Free French and the other American. Some individual teams differed.

The Jedburgh teams normally parachuted in by night to meet a reception committee from a local Resistance or Maquis group where their main function was to provide a link between the guerillas and the Allied command. They could provide liaison, advice, expertise, leadership, and -- their most powerful ability -- they could arrange airdrops of arms and ammunition.

Like all Allied forces that operated behind Nazi lines, the Jedburghs or Jeds as they called themselves, were subject to torture and execution in the event of capture, under Hitler's notorious Commando Order. Because the Jeds normally operated in uniform, to apply this order to them was a war crime, but the illegality of the order must have been small consolation to those Jedburgh members executed - about half of the total infiltrated.

The Jedburghs and the larger OGs (Operational Groups - about 30 men) were a uniquely American special operation. They were modeled to a degree on the British SOE, but unlike SOE operations, which often were arranged with a view to postwar politics, all that OSS expected from guerillas was willingness to fight the Axis. This led to some tension between the two clandestine operations organizations.

In World War II, the Jedburghs were a Special Forces unit of 300 volunteers recruited from the armed forces of Britain, America and France with small contingents from Belgium and Holland. Their task was to parachute in uniform into enemy occupied territory in small, mixed nationality teams, to arm and train Resistance fighters and to coordinate their activities with the overall strategy of the Allied D-Day armies advance out of Normandy (Overlord) and the landings in the South of France (Dragoon).

Milton Hall, near Peterborough, England, was their home base. There in 1944, they underwent months of exhaustive training, covering all aspects of modern guerrilla warfare, ambushes, demolition, unarmed combat, silent killing, small arms, parachuting and the techniques of reception committee work for receiving additional supplies by air while operating behind enemy lines.

The operational teams themselves, which were formed through a mixture of 'official' nominations and individual choice, usually were composed of either two British or two American Jedburghs, plus one other from the intended country of operation. There were variations on the theme, but whatever the final composition, one member of every team was always a radio operator, proficient in high speed Morse code and ciphers, the peculiarities of short-wave radios such as the 'B2' and the 'Jed-Set', and the intricacies of running repairs under primitive conditions.

Between June and September 1944, 276 Jedburgh personnel jumped into France, Belgium, and the Netherlands from bases in Great Britain and North Africa. During June and July they joined the resistance in attacks on German communications within Normandy. Several teams deployed to Brittany, where they worked with British Special Air Service to organize more than 20,000 partisans. When U.S. troops entered the province in August, these guerrillas guided units, protected their flanks, gathered intelligence, and provided a screen against German patrols.

To the east, as Allied armies raced across France in August and early September, French partisans with Jedburgh assistance ambushed retreating German columns, preserved major installations from demolition, rescued downed Allied pilots, and protected the right flank of Third Army's rapid advance. Jedburgh officers also gathered valuable intelligence, including plans for German defenses at Lorient and La Rochelle, and information on the V4, a new German secret weapon that used the blast from compressed air against infantry.

In southern France the Jedburgh-aided partisans supported the Allied landings on the Riviera coast and Seventh Army's subsequent drive to the Rhone Valley, liberating hosts of jubilant French towns in advance of the Allied forces.

Between D-Day and VE-Day, Jedburgh teams carried out 101 operations in Europe, 93 with the maquis in France in support of the Allied landings and 8 in the Netherlands of which 6 were in connection with Operation 'Market Garden' (Arnhem). Later the "Jeds", as they liked to call themselves, did many similar operations with other Allied Special Forces such as Force 136 (SOE) and the American OSS in Norway, Italy, Burma, Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia, China and Indo-China.

General Singlaub's OSS duties as a Jedburgh were as leader for team "JAMES" (a cover name for JEDBURGH team )composed of: LT J. K. Singlaub, Infantry, (MISSISSIPPI); LT (French) D. Leb (MICHIGAN); and SGT (American) A> J. Denneau (MASSACHUSETTS). Team 'James' missions included a parachute mission into occupied France to organize, train, and lead a French resistance unit which provided assistance to the Allied invasion forces.

(Note: The 37 Jedburghs, who died during the war, can be seen from the memorial tablet in the Sprite Chapel of the Peterborough Cathedral, Most were killed in action (KIA), but some died of wounds and others of illnesses contracted on operations in the jungles of South East Asia. Seven were executed after capture; one, a French officer by being beheaded and another by being bayoneted to death. The OSS and SOE Jedburghs made great contributions to the war effort and were successful in many ways which in themselves speak volumes for the NO SURRENDER philosophy.. Their commitment, sacrifice and successes laid the groundwork, which indicated the possibilities of the use of such Special Forces in the future.)

Later transferring to the China theater of the war Then captain Singlaub not having enough then went to China to train Chinese guerrillas and take part in actions against the Japanese. Just before the Japanese surrender, he led a parachute rescue mission into an enemy prisoner of war camp on Hainan Island, which resulted in the release of 400 Allied prisoners of war. This culminated with his being assigned as chief of the U.S. military liaison mission to Mukden, Manchuria for three years immediately following World War II.

General Singlaub served two tours during the Korean War; one with the CIA in Korea and the other as an infantry battalion commander with the Third Infantry Division. General Singlaub was also Commander of the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force (MAC SOG) in Vietnam, and later, assistant division commander of the Eighth Infantry Division in Germany. He was chief of staff, United Nations Command, United States Forces, Korea, and the Eighth U.S. Army in Seoul, Korea. Concomitantly, he served as the U.N. Command senior military member of the Military Armistice Committee at Panmunjon.

Interspersed with his wartime command positions were numerous training assignments both at home and abroad. General Singlaub was instrumental in the establishment of the Rangers training center at Fort Benning in Georgia. He helped establish the modern army select systems of tests, evaluation and review activity at Portland, Texas, and was responsible for training Army reserve and Army National Guard units. General Singlaub was appointed

deputy assistant secretary of defense for drug and alcohol abuse.

After parting ways under President Jimmy Carter, up and through the 1980's he continued to be deeply involved with "other special concerns" to U.S. military and Intelligence communities operations during the Cold war and War on Drugs as a civilian specialist in the intelligence and counterinsurgency operations. In fact today he is now, during the war on terror, continuing to be an active consultant and keeps a fit sharp mind and body as a true US patriot in the war against islamo-fascism. Following retirement from the U.S. Army, General Singlaub has traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad lecturing on national security issues. Today at 84 years old he is the current chairman of The OSS Society, the veterans group furthering the history and traditions of OSS.

The general's 35-year career reflected military action through the 33 military decorations he has been awarded via five campaigns including: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Silver Star Medal, the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster... All, recognitions of a Man who has NO SURRENDER as a major ingredient to the blood in his veins.

Join us and celebrate this great US Warrior and his can -do No Surrender attitude which we could all, take a cue and live by.