The Ritchie Boys, the Germans and the Moba

Ritchie boys went to the front lines under heavy fire and tried, in german, to persuade their knotsy counterparts to surrender. They also drafted and dropped leaflets from airplanes behind enemy lines. Given their foreign accents, they were in particular danger of being mistaken for the enemy by their own troops who instituted passwords at check points. Some richie boys were recruited to go on secret missions during the war.