<bgsound src="sounds/wuli.mid" loop="-1"> The Adventures of Wuli Marlene Part Two When last we saw our heroine, the famous Wuli Marlene, she'd made her way to France with the Allied forces, and continued to feed dis-information to the Axis, pretending to still be their spy. It was about this time that Wuli's life took yet another unexpected turn when she met a War Correspondent who had contacts in Hollywood. He convinced her to go to America, where he promised her stardom! Her old AirCorps contacts came in handy, and it wasn't long before she managed to line up a ride back to the States. In America she was unable to land meaningful parts in film, mostly due to her accent, and before long she found herself back in cabarets. This was not what Wuli had expected, and left her feeling unfulfilled. At one point she even tried a season with the All American Girls Baseball League, but she just didn't have the speed for it (her legs were shapely, but too short). However, it did bring Wuli to an exhibition game at an Army AirForce base. The memories of her days and nights in the field with the troops drove her to return to secretly fighting for the Allies. Wuli used her considerable powers of persuasion to once again make her way out to the front, but this time she went to the South Pacific, where she was known for a time as Wuli Mary. Wuli found the Marines to be just as friendly as the RAF, AirCorps, or US Armored Divisions had been. Again, Wuli found herself privy to a lot of sensitive information, and it wasn't long before she made contacts with Japanese agents and offered her services to them. The only reliable communications she could use for misleading the Japanese was via regular channels, sending coded messages through open channels. Unfortunately for Wuli, Intelligence in the Pacific Theatre was extremely adept at breaking codes, and it wasn't long before she was apprehended. It looked like the end for Wuli, because throughout her career as a double agent, she had operated entirely on her own and without anyone able to officially vouch for her. Of course, being the famous Wuli Marlene, she always had something going on. It's not clear exactly how she escaped, but . . . It just so happened that there were a number of Soviet pilots undergoing cooperative training in Australia preparing for a possible invasion of Japan. Coincidently, this took place near the detention facility where Wuli was being held . . . and Wuli Marlene also spoke a little Russian. To this day it has not been fully explained how the US really knew about the missles in Cuba, but it IS known that JFK had an autographed photo of Wuli tucked away in a drawer in the Oval Office. Return to Part I All of the photos on these pages were taken by me at the June 2002 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's World War II Weekend, an event I highly recommend for anyone interested in WWII. The place is packed with re-enactors and restored vehicles and aircraft. You can hear the music of the era played by live bands as you watch rare aircraft flying overhead. You can meet the people who were part of - actually made - history, and hear their stories. Historical books and movies and TV shows are fine as far as they go, and can give you the basics, but you'll never get the insight that history in person can give you. Back to the Musketeers main page Return to MY main page