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) 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. Throngs of Axis POWs (prisoners-of-war) march along a road. The prisoners march behind a barbed wire fence. U.S. SI (Secret Intelligence) agents are picked up from these prisoners. A large numbers of prisoners gathered in the area.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. Interiors of a room show an SI agent forging a German document. He uses an instrument with lights to forge a document containing a Nazi symbol. The agent pours a solution in a tray and places the document in it.
U.S. ground crews work on United States Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft in England prior to a bombing raid on Emden, Germany by U.S. 56th Fighter Group during World War II. P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft parked. The ground crew mounting an auxiliary fuel tank and loading wing guns.
A chemical warfare training film based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to various gases during World War II. Soldiers marching in a forest in the United States encounter a tear gas attack (dramatized for training). The soldiers put on their gas masks. They continue to march. A soldier without a gas mask faces problems as his eyes burn. He uses a solution of sodium bicarbonate to rinse his eyes at the nearest battalion aid station.
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