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The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) [3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda ...
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The head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), William Donovan, created the X-2 Counter Espionage Branch in 1943 to provide liaison with and assist the British in its exploitation of the Ultra program's intelligence during World War II. [1] A few months before, Donovan had established a Counterintelligence Division within the Secret ...
Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II in which three-man teams of operatives of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the Free French Bureau central de renseignements et d'action ("Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations") and the Dutch and Belgian armies ...
Mitchell Livingston WerBell III (March 18, 1918 – December 17, 1983) was a U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative, mercenary, paramilitary trainer, firearms engineer, and arms dealer. Mitchell WerBell III. Born.
TOP Oss ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtɔp ɔs] ), [ 1] is a professional association football club based in the town of Oss, North Brabant, Netherlands, that competes in the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of the Dutch football league system. Founded in 1928 as T.O.P., a Dutch abbreviation for T ot O ns P lezier (English translation: To our ...
In December 1943 Stilwell issued a directive that Detachment 101 increase its strength to 3,000 guerillas. They were recruited from within Burma, many of them "fierce Kachins". [6] Once established, the groups undertook a variety of unconventional missions. They ambushed Japanese patrols, rescued downed American pilots, and cleared small ...
The United States Naval Special Warfare Command ( USNSWC ), also known as NAVSPECWARCOM and WARCOM, [ 4] is the naval component of United States Special Operations Command, the unified command that oversees and conducts the nation's special operations and missions. Originating in the unconventional naval units formed during World War II, WARCOM ...