SOG: The Second Ashtray Mission
I: While I was home on extension leave, the first Ashtray convoy ambush and POW snatch mission was attempted. It was led by Major Frank Jaks, our S-3, who though still youthful and vigorous, had in his teenage years been an anti-Nazi partisan in Czechoslovakia. Although his hand-picked, all-U.S. team successfully reached the highway and …