ALBANY, N.Y. – Before there were heavily armed Navy SEALs conducting nighttime helicopter raids, there were guys like Frank Monteleone landing on beaches in the dark on two-man motorized rafts dubbed ...
During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was manned with thousands of soldiers and spies, operating behind enemy lines to organize local resistance, gather intelligence and ...
The Wrigley family built Catalina Island into a major tourist destination before World War II. But the war’s outbreak changed everything, radically altering life on Catalina. After the Dec. 7, 1941, ...
The Office of Strategic Services Society recognized the U.S. Coast Guard’s contributions to the OSS — the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency — during World War II at a Tuesday evening event ...