For the duration of World War II, the Office of Strategic Services was conducting multiple activities and missions, including collecting intelligence by spying, performing acts of sabotage, waging propaganda war, organizing and coordinating anti-Nazi resistance groups in Europe, and providing military training for anti-Japanese guerrilla ...

Here are ten activities of the OSS and its agents during the Second World War. Virginia Hall receiving her Distinguished Service Cross from General William Donovan for her activities during the war. CIA. Before Virginia Hall joined the OSS she worked for the British SOE in France.

2024年4月23日 · Descriptions of 23,973 personnel files from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) between 1941 and 1945 are available in the National Archives Catalog. To search for an individual's name in the OSS personnel files: Scroll down to the "Includes" field and click on the link for "Search within this Series."

2021年2月3日 · The OSS established more than 40 overseas offices during World War II, extending from Casablanca to Shanghai, and from Stockholm to Pretoria. After the OSS was terminated on September 20, 1945, by Executive Order; most records were eventually transferred to two agencies of the Federal government.

In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became the first independent US intelligence agency. It only lasted for three years and three months but it became the basis for the modern Central Intelligence Agency.

America’s entry into the war following the intelligence failure of Pearl Harbor led to the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on 13 June 1942. Snow suits like this one were worn by OSS’s Norwegian Special Operations Group during behind-the-lines ski-parachute sabotage operations in Norway during World War II.

The Office of Strategic Services Society celebrates the historical accomplishment of the OSS during World War II - the first organized effort by this nation to implement a centralized system of strategic intelligence, spearheaded by the legendary General 'Wild Bill' Donovan - and educates the public as the continuing importance of strategic ...

Considered as a legacy unit of the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) has assumed almost mythical stature since World War II. Several OSS veterans, among them Colonel Aaron Bank, Lieutenant Colonel Jack T. Shannon, and Majors Herbert R. Brucker and Caesar J. Civitella brought unconventional warfare (UW ...

US entry into World War II in December 1941 led to a dra-matic expansion for Donovan’s organization. In June 1942, Roosevelt reor-ganized COI as the OSS, in which military and civilian per-sonnel had responsibilities in the fields of intelligence and counterintelligence, psychologi-cal warfare, and guerrilla oper-

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), agency of the U.S. federal government (1942–45) formed for the purpose of obtaining information about and sabotaging the military efforts of enemy nations during World War II. It was headed by William J. (“Wild …