The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Mediterranean training center in Cairo, Egypt at the Villa Abaza during World War 2. A car pulls in front of the building. OSS agents and radiomen in training attend a class. An instructor shows a large map of the Balkan region. Another professor points to a map of Italy. A trainee answers the professor. Trainees examine a map together. OSS trainees study land surveying outdoors.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agent training in the Middle East during World War II. Students practice close combat methods outdoors, with a karate chop dispatching the opponent. An instructor holds a knife while teaching knife attack. A diagram behind shows figures attacking German soldiers with knife. Another instructor teaches trainees how to use a .45 caliber handgun. Brief shot showing application of disguise. OSS agent trainees attend a class on sabotage and demolitions of enemy installations.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) radio operator training in the Middle East during World War II. OSS radio operator trainees attend a lecture. Trainees watch an OSS training film on “Strategic Services Transmitter Receiver Number 1”. An instructor teaches a class on secret codes. Radio trainees in telegraph class. Several Keyer TG-10-F morse code practice machines built by Gray Manufacturing play black messages while radio operators wearing headphones interpret coded results.
United States Infantry troops and tanks in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during World War II. Hand sign for “3”. Infantry troops move up a hillside road. Medics remove wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Two medics carry a soldier on a stretcher, laying the patient on the side of the road. The 301st Regiment, 94th Division digging trenches on the hillside.
United States infantry soldiers sit on top of M4 Sherman tanks driving through Schillingen, Germany during World War II. Tanks pass by destroyed houses. A column of German prisoners is seen walking past, some of carrying a wounded comrade on stretcher. Streets of shell torn town are jammed with tanks and American soldiers. Soldiers board tanks. A soldier sits on top of an M4 Sherman tank.
United States 88th Infantry Division soldiers question a group of German prisoners of war (POWs) in Zerf, Germany in World War II. The POWs belong to a mountain division recently brought into battle area from Finland. A prisoner of war comes out of a building. United States soldiers question the prisoner. Another soldier holds a clipboard. A prisoner of war talks to the Americans. A soldier wearing glasses speaks to a captured prisoner.
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