INVASION - by Bob & Wanda Duncan
The Time Travellers land in Cherbourge two days before D-Day and Doug falls
into the hands of a Doctor experimenting with brainwashing.
Doug and Tony tumble out of the Vortex of Time
onto the streets of Cherbourg just as a trio of French saboteurs are blasting
a German prison. The pair, seeking to flee the scene, fall into the hands of
Major Hoffman of the Gestapo, who asks them about Allied plans. They do in
fact know something, for they see by the calendar that it is 48 hours to D-Day. At the Time Tunnel, Ann, Swain and Kirk watch with concern, knowing that
they must be gotten out of Cherbourg before the invasion bombing. But as they
work to focus on the pair, the two are separated by a Dr. Kleinemann who is
doing research in brainwashing. He will so completely alter one of the
Americans, he promises that he can be made to kill the other. Directing
Hoffman to let Tony escape, he takes a struggling Doug into
his laboratory, where he is brainwashed by techniques that include dangerous
injections. Meanwhile, Tony is picked up by the three saboteurs, Mirabeau,
Duchamps and Verlaine, and tries to get them to help him rescue his friend
from the Gestapo headquarters. They say it's impossible, but they do come to
trust him enough to take him along on their next assignment, blowing up the
local refinery. Now, Doug is being programmed by Kleinemann to think like a
Nazi captain, Krueger, and that Tony is an enemy he must kill. The refinery
sabotage is successful, but Verlaine, in using a machine gun on a soldier
nearly kills Tony giving him much to think about when, later, the Gestapo, led
by the brainwashed Doug, discover their headquarters. Doug tries to kill Tony
on sight, but he, with others, manages to escape to a new hideout and their
last coup before the invasion. But all the time they fear an informer is with
them, and indeed one is - Mirabeau, who appears at Gestapo headquarters to
warn of the invasion and the proposed sabotage. Learning Tony is part of the
plan, Kleinemann summons Doug to tell him to make another attempt to kill him.
The Time Tunnel has by now been calculated to make a pick-up. Upon finding
Tony, Doug in trying to kill him is knocked out himself by a bullet's creasing
his head. A doctor is summoned. The doctor, Shumate, revives Doug and
Mirabeau, who he saw at the Gestapo is revealed. Verlaine promptly dispatches
the traitor. Shumate says Doug can only be cured by Kleinemann himself, who
has an antidote to his serum. Thus Tony goes along with the saboteurs who plan
to blowup the Gestapo headquarters, and asks for get Kleinemann out of the
building first. The scientist no warrior, comes along peaceably and gives Doug
the needed antidote. Morning arrives and the invasion begins, whereupon Tony
and Doug, restored now, are caught up in the Vortex of Time.
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