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Greek / American Operational Group Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Memoirs of World War 2

Congressional Gold Medal

Reasons for the Disregard

There are numerous reasons why all the ethnic USOGs in general and the Greek/USOG and the Yugoslav/USOG in particular have been ignored repeatedly.


Notes

  1. For lists of missions and battles, see the National Archive documents cited in this book at Part 4, Yugoslavia, and at Part 6, Greece.
  2. The sudden disbanding of the Greek/USOG (Co. C, 2671 Special Reconnaissance Battalion) at Bari, Italy, in November 1944, reminded me of the sudden disbanding of the US "Greek Battalion" (122nd Infantry Battalion) at Camp Carson, Colorado, in August 1943, when some of us volunteered into the OSS because we still wanted to go and help to liberate Greece. See in these memoirs: Part 2, Office of Strategic Services (OSS): "The OSS recruits Volunteers; the Greek Battalion is Disbanded".
  3. My memoirs from the CBI Theater of Operations (China, Burma, India) will be deposited as a manuscript in the Library of Congress. As a member of the OSS in China in WW2, I was one of 15 American military advisers who trained the 4th Chinese Commando. The big bomb ended the war a couple of weeks later, and my unit was sent to Nanking to roundup Allied POWS.
  4. See in these memoirs: Part 7, The Greek/USOG Disbands.
  5. For examples of the later dates, see National Archives, "Previously Classified OSS Records," Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group, available at https://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/june-2000.html
     
    Also see CIA, "OSS Personnel Files Released," 2008 Featured Story Archive, available at https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2008-featured-story-archive/oss-personnel-files-released.html
  6. See in these memoirs: Part 2, Office of Strategic Services: "Why Did I Join the Greek Units?"


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