sheehan julia would disappear -- sheehan jane would disappear for weeks at a time on orientation courses and small-arms courses where they learn how to master a thompson submachine gun and a cold 45. julia was desperate to go to france, but after 17 years of high school and college friend she discovered she couldn't. >> a word. she had no special skill to recommend her overseas there were so when the word went out that donovan was looking for warm bodies, anybody's, to help set up and running network of new intelligence bases in india, burma and china, she immediately volunteered. she didn't care where she went, as long as she got to go and there was a man shortage and a newly formed oss was woefully understaffed. it is important thing to remember that when you think of the oss, you generally think about that paramilitary and guerrilla operations. they get all the glory. you know you think of grainy images of agents parachuting behind enemy lines. but the fact of the matter is, of the 13,000 employees, about 4500 of which were women, the vast majority spent their time writing reports, co