As a junior member of the Seventh Army OSS unit, Jack Hemingway had been sent up to the front to assist Sichel and his partners in the infiltration operation, although what kind of assistance he might provide was subject to debate. “Jack was the most beautiful, dumbest man I have ever met,” Sichel recalled. “A very sweet guy, and not a bad bone in his body, but you wouldn’t trust him to bring in the mail.”
