United States OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War II. In support of Italian anti-fascists and anti-Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields.
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.
Public service announcement to be shown to American citizens going to move theaters during World War II. U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor to Central Intelligence Agency or CIA) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovan asks the public to send in vacation photographs taken abroad. Narrator explains that photos of overseas ports, docks, railroads, and places of strategic importance in cities can be useful for the U.S. war effort (for intelligence and targeting purposes). Women workers remove pictures from mail sacks, view them for useful information, and sort them. Men examine images by magnifying glasses. Closeups of example photos are shown. Colonel L. E. Norris takes a look at photographs at his desk and holds up a card with his name and address. Narrator invites viewers to send photographs to Colonel Norris as a civilian contribution to the war effort and says, "it's one way you can help win the war."
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovon asks the public to send pictures taken abroad to Colonel L. E. Norris in the United States during World War II, to assist in war planning and intelligence. Passengers arrive. Cameras on a conveyor belt. Passengers on a ship. Colonel L. E. Norris of the OSS sorts war photographs in his office. Employees examine film strips and photographs. OSS staff watches a movie. Still photographs of various locations including the Solomon Islands.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovon asks the public to send pictures taken abroad to Colonel L. E. Norris in the United States during World War II. Employees sorting still photographs sent by the public. Various pictures showing foreign harbors and coastlines. Colonel L.E. Norris of the OSS examines the photographs at his desk. The employees examine filmstrips and photographs at a desk.
A World War II training film titled 'First Aid for Gas Casualties' based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to various gases during a war. Soldiers marching on a road, advancing across country, moving through dugouts and heavily wooded sections in the United States. Use of various gases in chemical warfare shows an aircraft releasing mustard gas, detonation of a phosgene bomb, use of hand grenade for tear gas and white phosphorous explosions. A casualty is treated at a hospital. A group of soldiers is attacked by mustard gas released over them by an aircraft. The soldiers run and put on masks. They rub protective ointment over unprotected parts of body.
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