During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was manned with thousands of soldiers and spies, operating behind enemy lines to organize local resistance, gather intelligence and ...

William “Wild Bill” Donovan during World War II. OSS, which at its peak in 1944 employed 13,000 men and women who carried out unprecedented acts of espionage and sabotage against the Axis ...

A forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, the OSS was formed in June 1942 to coordinate the espionage activities of the country’s armed forces during World War II. William Donovan was the ...

covert crossbow used by the daring agents of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II? The crossbows were issued out to daring spies of the OSS — the U.S.’s wartime intelligence ...

the only combat mission conducted by U.S. forces in Norway during World War II, exemplifies the extraordinary collaboration between the U.S. and Norway under the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

President Roosevelt established the OSS on June 13, 1942, just months after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II. OSS members gathered intelligence ...

A rusted WWII-era tank gun barrel, likely left behind by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during secretive wartime training exercises, has been recovered from a remote section of Prince William ...

Rather than start from scratch, they used the operational groups of the OSS from WWII as a model for the new unit structure. This structure carried over in the formation of Army Special Forces ...

“Catalina Island OSS Training, 1944-45,” Gene and Clara’s blog, May 19, 2014. “Commandos and Anti-Aircraft Guns: Catalina’s Top-Secret WWII History,” by Nathan Master, KCET ...

“The top six people at OSS secret intelligence in Italy he recruited ... The film, which debuted in Sicily at a WWII museum in Italy last year to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied forces ...

She discussed the unlikely link between academia and the espionage of the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS — the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency — conducted during World War II. Many ...