My great-grandfather was a Jedburg in WWII who parachuted behind enemy lines well before D-Day in 1944. A sly, wiry Italian immigrant who later built a small business outside Washington, DC. Continue reading Today’s OSS: Bigger, Badder, Meaner, Persistent, Pervasive
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Ahhhh, ‘Twas the Fall of 1944 and Nat Geo Ran Romania
My Pops recounted a funny story about one of his SFOD-D buds who was in charge of an entire province in Afghanistan. A US Army master sergeant tellin’ everyone what’s what, handing out parking passes to high-ranking officials, and making the locals play nice with the invading soldiers from 10 different countries. Continue reading Ahhhh, ‘Twas the Fall of 1944 and Nat Geo Ran Romania
SIMPLE SABOTAGE: OSS FIELD MANUAL No. 3
For subversives everywhere, provided you can entiende English. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operated clandestinely in WWII and was the precursor to the CIA. The OSS took much of its doctrine from the British Special Air Service (SAS), the modern-day version of Satan’s Angels. If you’re not into the Old Testament, please read on. Continue reading SIMPLE SABOTAGE: OSS FIELD MANUAL No. 3