PhDs who can win a bar fight.

These were the two traits General “Wild Bill” Donovan wanted in each OSS operative in the secret unit called the Jedburghs. He “was the sort of guy who thought nothing about parachuting into France, blowing up a bridge, pissing into Luftwaffe gas tanks, then dancing with a German spy on the roof of the St. Regis Hotel.”

He found them, and they excelled.

It is hard to think a more desirable combination.