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Katie S. Sanders

Katie S. Sanders

Katie S. Sanders is a journalist and the co-author of Ortiz’s War: The Allies’ Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in Occupied France.

Stories from Katie S. Sanders

A 1945 photo of Francis Lowell Coolidge (third from left) in the Pacific theater of World War II

This American Commando Parachuted Behind Enemy Lines in Both the European and Pacific Theaters of World War II

A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lowell Coolidge was an agent with the Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor to the CIA. Read his goodbye letter to his wife, published here for the first time

Peter J. Ortiz receives the first of the two Navy Crosses he was awarded for extraordinary heroism during World War II.

The American Spy Who Surrendered to the Nazis to Save Civilians

In 1944, Pierre Julien Ortiz parachuted into occupied France, where the Gestapo offered a reward of half a million francs for his capture