Operational Group Command

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reviews the Operational Groups (OGs) at Area F, the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, prior to their departure for China. Operational Group Command (OG) was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II that specialized in clandestine and covert operations, combat search and rescue of POWs and Allied spies captured in areas occupied by the Axis powers, commando-style raids on key targets, frontline military intelligence gathering, guerrilla warfare, independent operations against designated Axis powers targets, maneuver warfare, providing military assistance to resistance movement groups in areas occupied by the Axis powers, special reconnaissance, and support of military strategy and tactical operational plans. The original A-Teams of the United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets), Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA), are modeled after the successes of Operational Group Command and its groups. William Donovan and Millard Preston Goodfellow were concerned with creating guerrilla commando units within Special Activities/Goodfellow (SA/G) as early as December 1941. Operational Group Command was made up of Operational Groups (OGs), which were originally created on 23 December 1942 as a division within the OSS Special Operations Branch (SO), before achieving branch status.…

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