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In the summer of 1944, a single American woman sat at a military switchboard in occupied France and calmly redirected every desperate call for help from an isolated armored regiment—sending 800 men straight into a trap they never saw coming. This isn't a story about enemy soldiers or failed strategy. This is about Helen Kowalski, a 23-year-old communications operator from Cleveland, who destroyed an entire regiment with nothing but patience, access, and the trust of men who believed the voice on the other end of the line was there to save them. What drove her to betray her own countrymen? How did she get away with it for 72 hours? And why does the U.S. military still refuse to talk about what really happened at Saint-Sauveur?

The Third Armored Regiment was pushing through Normandy just weeks after D-Day, surrounded by German forces and relying entirely on radio contact with headquarters. Colonel James Hartford and his men called for reinforcements, artillery support, and air cover—and every single call was acknowledged, confirmed, and promised. But the help never came. Because Helen Kowalski, operating from a bunker 40 miles behind the lines, was routing every one of those calls to a dead relay station, ensuring the regiment stayed isolated, confused, and defenseless while German forces closed in. This is the declassified story of one of WWII's most devastating acts of sabotage, the intelligence officer who recruited her, and the 647 American soldiers who died trusting a voice that was leading them to slaughter.

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