Mark Nakayama

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To help her identify moles—Gestapo agents posing as downed airmen—she had the owners of her Brussels safe houses interrogate airmen who approached them for help. If a flier arriving at Ann Brusselmans’s apartment claimed to be from New York, he was asked the name of the current center fielder of the New York Yankees. If he answered wrong, Brusselmans had members of the Belgian underground army take him for “a long walk in the woods.”
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
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