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in partnership with Jack Wiener, formerly an executive at
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agent, Joanna Grey. It is left to Pitts' deputy, Captain Harry Clark, to launch another attack that overruns the positions of the
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was in line to play Devlin, but ongoing comments he had made in support of the IRA and attendance at an IRA fundraising event in
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brings up his mangled corpse. The villagers then see that he is wearing a German uniform underneath his Polish one. Steiner's men round up the villagers and hold them captive in the village church, but the vicar's sister, Pamela Verecker, escapes and alerts a unit of nearby
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