There is a common expression heard in the military, at least in more recent years.

When it comes to obtaining something that is either not for sale or simply needs taking,

soldiers have a very clever way of phrasing it.

You didn't steal that, did you, Sergeant? Uh, no, sir. It was

tactically acquired. Or, since all military personnel are issued hundreds of pieces of the

same gear, various pouches, bags, rucksacks, tarps, helmets, flashlights, canteens, etc.

Gear, which often goes missing and has to be paid for if you can't find it.

There is another expression to explain everyone's missing gear. There is only one thief in the

military. Everyone else is just trying to get their stuff back. It's an endless cycle of robbing

Peter to pay Paul, in other words.

Such petty thievery is frowned on by the senior officers,

not that they didn't also pilfer things when they were young troops,

but otherwise stealing in the military is largely a punishable offense.

But what would a commanding officer think if he received a report that one of his men had just robbed several banks?

And not only robbed them, but had pulled off the greatest heists in the history of bank robberies.

Using tactics he learned in the army. This is one such story, the story of a dishonorably discharged German soldier, whose use of military tactics led to some of the most successful bank heists in American history.

His methods would in fact revolutionize the world of organized crime

and mark him as one of the world's most elite criminals.

His name was Herman Lamb,

although his friends called him the Baron.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. Bornstil, L'Un,

the gear, here.

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