U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate anti-fascist, partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. Operations Officer Albert Materazzi briefs the men of Operational Group (Cayuga Team) at OG (Operational Group) headquarters in Ciano, Italy. Cayuga Team members study the terrain in which they have to operate. Pilots who will fly in the Cayuga Team members are briefed. Cayuga Team members with their paratrooper packs board U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft. The C-47s taxi on an airfield. Aerial view of Italian terrain. Parachutists of Cayuga Team jump from C-47s in flight.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan, anti-fascist activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War 2. A U.S. radio operator receives a radio message at Operational Group headquarters after Cayuga Team (OSS Operational Group members) are parachuted in a drop zone. An officer takes a look at the message detailing requirement of equipment needed for the mission. The material is loaded in waiting U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain transport airplanes. The C-47s warm up before taking off. They taxi and take off from an airstrip. Formations of C-47s. Parachute supplies are dropped in drop zones in mountainous terrain.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. An SI agent washes a paper with 'Eagle atop Swastika' Nazi symbol of Hitler's Third Reich in Germany. The officer pours a solution and places the paper in a surgical tray. He fixes the paper on a cardboard and further examines it.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. A teacher, a member of the SI, explains about army tanks and teaches English to a group of German agents using a diagram and a blackboard. The students write in English on the blackboard.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. A U.S. Army jeep being driven on a road. The jeep halts at a building and a U.S. soldier gets off the jeep and enters the building. Another building with trees in the background. Buildings in a hilly terrain. View of the surrounding mountains. An SI officer explains about tanks on a blackboard to a group of German agents.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. U.S. officers deplane and get into a car. The car pulls away. U.S. officers and soldiers arrive at a building. Interiors of the building shows an SI agent holding a sketch of a girl.
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