Operations at the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) School in Cairo, Egypt. View of the OSS headquarters and the training camp. The Chiefs of Staff arrive at the training camp. They discuss in the office. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) personnel undergo training for morale operations activities in the Balkans. A soldier rests in his tent. Trainees work in calisthenics, history, geography, language, radio broadcasting and monitoring. They attend the lectures. They also work in propaganda leaflet composition, portable printing press operation, interrogation techniques, vehicle operation and maintenance. (World War II period).
Animated map shows the spread of Nazism in Europe during World War II. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) headquarters and Mediterranean training center in Cairo, Egypt. Also known as the “Spy School” the training center is a lavish royal palace known as the “Ras el Kanayas”. Colonel Toolman and the OSS Middle East theater staff planning special missions for the penetration of the Balkan region. Colonel reads a map on the table. Other staff members beside him read reports. A large map of Europe is seen behind the OSS staff. OSS Schools and Training Commanding Officer Major John Vassos screens a candidate during recruitment. Major John Vassos hands over a list of requirements to the candidate.
Events during the Suez Crisis in Egypt. Officials and delegates at an airport. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo. Ruins and debris of bombed buildings on a street. A building burning. A man on a cart carries two dead men. Several views of the dead people lying on a street. The troops walk on a street. The tanks roll down a street. People crowd on either side of the street. Commander of the UN (United Nation) Forces Canadian General Eedson Louis Millard Burns gets off from an aircraft. The UN troops drive in a jeep. The sunken ships in Suez Canal. A donkey drawn cart and men move towards the canal.
General Henry Arnold stands with other senior Allied military officers, behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Madame Chiang, in Cairo, Egypt during the Cairo Conference. General Arnold meeting with other Allied military chiefs at the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, Canada. General Arnold conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Women pilots of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP) in front of their T-6 training aircraft. General Arnold at the graduation ceremony of the first class of WASP pilots.
OSS or Office of Strategic Services officers on a mission in the Middle East during World War II. A jeep drives to a communication transmitter located at Kilo 13 outside Cairo, Egypt. An officer seated in a jeep talks to a personnel. Personnel work at a station. The jeep drives 3 miles away to a receiving station. Chief of Communications Major Porter. Personnel work at the stations. A jeep and a truck driven towards Security Officer Training Camp which is 164 miles north west of Cairo. The camp area and tents. Cadets move towards the tents.
During time of Egyptians seeking independence and protesting British rule in Egypt. A large crowd surrounds an official car carrying Saad Zaghlul Pasha, the Egyptian leader, as he returns from exile. Crowd carries a big flag. Trees along the side of the street. Saad Zaghlul Pasha stands at the door of a building.
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