Author: Michael

If you are shopping for the spy who has everything, have you considered asking Santa to bring a silent, covert crossbow used by the daring agents of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II? The crossbows were issued out to daring spies of the OSS — the U.S.’s wartime intelligence service that eventually morphed into the CIA — as silent, easily concealable weapons for operatives behind enemy lines.
Santa can choose the small handheld Little Joe Penetrometer or maybe the Big Joe 5 shoulder-fired crossbow.

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Welcome to That One Scene, a semi-regular series in which Task & Purpose staffers wax nostalgic about “that one scene” from a beloved movie.
The 1970 movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” which chronicles the attack on Pearl Harbor, billed itself as featuring some of the most realistic combat footage in Hollywood history — a claim more true than even the makers originally intended.

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