Oss Training In The National Parks And Service Abroad In World War Ii
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OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II
This study does not simply explore the training camps of "Wild Bill" Donovan's organization in the two National Parks. It also assesses the effectiveness of the training OSS agents received and how they utilizted it in their dangerious and often heroic exploits overseas. It exlores the legacies of the OSS, upon the parks themselves, upon the veterans, and upon the organization heirs of the OSS.
OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II
Author: John Whiteclay Chambers
language: en
Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Release Date: 2018-10
Before there was the CIA, there was the OSS. The places where they trained for their dangerous mission are now national parks. This is an official history prepared by the National Park Service of the United States.
OSS Training and Service Abroad in World War II
Author: U S National Park Service
language: en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date: 2015-04-10
Because of the secrecy that enveloped the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in World War II, it surprises most people, including nearby residents, to learn that spies were trained in some of the National Parks-not just spies but guerrilla leaders, saboteurs, clandestine radio operators and others who would be infiltrated behind enemy lines. What are today known as Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland and Prince William Forest Park in Virginia played a vital role in the training of the operatives of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Known by its initials, the OSS was a specially created wartime military agency that fought a largely invisible and covert war against the Axis powers between 1942 and 1945. America's first national centralized intelligence agency with thousands of clandestine operatives, spies, and intelligence analysts, the OSS is acknowledged as the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. With its Special Operations troops and Operational Group commandos, the OSS is also widely considered a forerunner of today's Special Forces. From 1941 to 1945, the men and women of the OSS were part of a "shadow war," a war largely behind the scenes and often behind enemy lines around the world. Highly secret during the war and in many instances for years thereafter, that effort was designed to help undermine the conquests of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and militaristic Japan. The "shadow warriors" sought to supply and guide local resistance movements, demoralize the enemy through "black propaganda," and to gather intelligence and commit sabotage in enemy occupied territory to contribute to the victory of the Allies' armed forces as they overcame the totalitarian, Axis aggressors.