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.
The United States 30th Infantry Division talk and rest in a snowy, damaged Belgian village during World War II. Two US soldiers shake hands in a damaged village with heavy snow. The two men talk. Destroyed houses and piles of rubble are seen behind the two men. The soldier introduces his comrades to the other man. Soldiers put their gun slings. An officer gives instruction to the troops. Close up faces of weary and tired American soldiers. Some soldiers light their cigarettes. The soldiers walk toward their Jeep. They get in their Jeep and leave the village.
The United States 30th Infantry Division wear white camouflaged suits outside Malmedy, Belgium during World War II. US soldiers stand in the snow. They are wearing white suits and caps made from sheets and lace tablecloths taken from civilian homes. A soldier shows his rifle covered with white knitted lace. A soldier wearing a cap made of ripped white lace. Soldiers smoke in front of a building and an M4 Sherman tank. Others peer from the window. Troops march along in the snow. A Jeep carrying a group of soldiers drives behind the marching troops in the snow.
The United States 30th Infantry Division carry equipment outside Malmedy during World War II as they recover victims of the Malmedy Massacre (also know as the Baugnez Massacre.) A bulldozer clears snow from the road. United States soldiers walk behind in heavy snow. A soldier carries a large cable spool on his back. Group of men carry equipment and a stretcher while walking in deep snow. A snow covered tank drives past soldiers. A snow covered Sherman tank-dozer passes. Soldiers carry body of victim of the Baugnez Massacre on a stretcher through deep snow Military truck with trailer parked in snow near La chapelle Saint Henri de Géromont in the outskirts of Malmedy on E421 Rte de Waimes. A sign reads “Geromont Malmedy” (the German word “Kreis” is scratched out).
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