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Plagued by limited supplies and bad weather, most of the mission’s personnel were found and captured in December 1944. The German Army regained territory occupied by the partisans and began seeking out the OSS teams. Shortly after the OSS teams arrived in country, a resolute German counteroffensive crushed the uprising. We discussed the progress of Daniel Jones, a hidden superstar on offense and how this game might play out in Week 9.

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This created an opportunity for the OSS to help the resistance and provide intelligence back to OSS headquarters, while also assisting in the recovery of Allied airmen downed while flying bombing raids from Italy into Germany. The Raiders will take on the New York Giants on Sunday in a big AFC-NFC matchup.

By September, the Slovak partisans controlled a large swath of territory centered around the city of Banska Bystrica. Resistance had begun in late summer and gained momentum. In September and October 1944, two small OSS teams-including American and European personnel-were flown in to Czechoslovakia, to assist an uprising of Slovak Partisans against the Nazi collaborationist regime. As a small, nimble agency, the OSS typically focused on missions outside the scope of the traditional armed forces. As the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, the OSS filled a specific need during the war-gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations behind enemy lines. Six months after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

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