1 i I "A surgeon was more valuable to us than a division. He was not only a good surgeon, but also a very kind man, self-effacing, self- sacrificing, and above all, a brave soldier/* Yugoslavia gave Da foe the Order of Service to the People be- fore he left the country in 1944 and in 1984, during ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of his parachute drop, he was post- humouslv awarded the Medal of Bloody months: For six bloo.dy months, Dr. Colin Dafoe of Madoc, Ont., above, treated wounded resistance fighters in WW II Yugoslavia. Author Jeffrey Street, left, wove together Dafoe's diaries and interviews in Yugoslavia. Victory and the Order of Merit. Such high honors, the book says, are rarely bestowed on foreign- ers. The British were not very help- ful about a man who was, al- though a Canadian, one of their own officers. Author Street says a number of official documents about Dafoe's mission and his wartime service were unavail- able because of the Official Se- crets Act "or were unaccount- ably missing." Drew blank And efforts to trace the identi- ties and whereabouts of other agents who served with him in Yugoslavia drew va blank. Some- one, Street suspects, went through Dafoe's official life with a broom and swept up after him. .. The book is a welcome addition to the library of Canadian ex- ploits in World War II. n Ron Lowman covers the mili- tary beat for The Star.