VETERANS OF OSS «00h FLOOR 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK, N¥. 1012 (22) 62.2000 + Tales 149 FAX a 6323018 NEWSLETTER SUMMER 1994 HEREWITH THE PROMISED CHRONOLOGICAL POTPOURRI OF NEWS/ITEMS COVERING OUR MANY DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND MEMBER DOINGS SINCE OUR LAST SUCH NEWSLETTER/INTERIM REPORT WINTER 1993 -- I.E. FROM MARCH 15, 1993 DELAYED THROUGH JUNE 1, 1994. (OUR SOTH ANNIVERSARY NEWSLETTER WILL NOW BE FINALIZED NEXT YEAR TO COINCIDE WITH THE PIPTIETH ANWIVERSARY OF OUR "DISSOLUTION" IN 1945. FYI YOUR OFFICE 15 EXPLORING THE MANUFACTURING OF A UNISEX LOGO BLUE TIE AND BRACES/SUSPENDER, NOW "THAT WE HAVE EXPANDED THE RANGE AND COLORS OF OUR QUEENSBORO MERCHANDISE (WHICH WE HOPE THOSE OF YOU SO ORDERING HAVE BY NOW ENJOYED RECEIVING). SO THANKS AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SENT US A. VARIETY OF PERSONAL NEWS (70 INCLUDE ARTICLES/PHOTOS ETC.) SEPARATELY OR WITH THE PAYMENT OF YOUR DUES ~~ AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE GENEROUS ENOUGH 70 BE “GOLD STAR" DUES PAYERS AND/OR WHO HAVE SENT US MUCH NEEDED. AND APPRECIATED EXTRA CONTRIBUTIONS FOR OUR EVER PRESSED TREASURY. THE FOLLOWING WILL UPDATE YOU ON OUR: Membership As of dune 1, 1994, we now have 1151 Members, 815 former 0SS‘ers, 65 Widow Members and 351 Lineal Descendants. Since March 15 (per the 1994 List of Members), 13 new Members have joined which include 5 Lb’s (9 as Life Menbers, 3 of which are LD‘s) and 2 more have converted to Life Membership while 6 have deceased. FYI we are carrying 11 Members as "hardship" and ~~ as of June 1, 1994 =~ still have 101 dues paying Menbers who have not as yet paid their i994 dues, plus 44 Mesbers who still owe for 1999; 25 for 1993 & °927 and 17 for 1993, ‘92 & ‘91 ~~ that anounts to over $8,000. If all those unpaid dues-payers reading this report would make their dues current our operations would be greatly facilitated. (Treasurer Duff will be glad to send you another Statement if you have misplaced the last one that was sent you). We need the §. LET'S GO LINEAL DESCENDANTS. FYI Secretary Ba Boughton recently wrote all OSS Members whose Lineal Descendants had not yet joined VSS to urge and/or help their offspring to join our very special group. We now have 251 LD Members ~~ with another 12 in the process of joining ~~ and we would Like to Welcone as many as possible by October 1, 1995 -- the 50th Anniversary of OSS’s dissolution, an appropriate date to turn our administration over to our LD/s for then to continue the spirit and tradition of OSS and General Donovan as the Society of OSS. Special LD’s have/are currently helping area get-togethers, but. we hope more will take increasing participation in our organization and its future ~~ and send us news of what they are doing and where. We also hope our LD’s will call on and/or visit each other ~~ as well as former OSS‘ers —~ in the USA and other parts of the world (where our overseas Reps/VP’s, now all L's, would like to Welcome you). ‘AND PLEASE KEEP URGING/HELPING ALL LINEAL DESCENDANTS 70 JOINiBIENVENUE AND WELCOME BACK TO THE CARPETBAGGERS 1 was a Tempo tht he fur American erems were tunned by the RAF Special Tames Squadrons and fram Sie for shor pero. ey ne Carpetbaszers Wve bsck ty year oie in Britain ane nee tht waving sha [Eoerahlming For ica days flew their B-24 Liberator Thctatuunmes WWI Binh Belore. taking over the Mftisues Tench Sagesards Rasngton Air ase dine poopie a sabsequen The following Gy wresbs SMieruigeete Mosh cousnes were placed on the Fetped 80 American o ore Cran special operations rou. ‘Chrpetbagases was Sipethapgers monument a Hurngion by Croup Capsin Bache std Colonel Rose Fin Commander of the Clipthagges who tained a 1 aptzpr ea mass on ba as fe are Terps Ae the woth laying 3 P 51 Mung mae several ow edename oft squads af {he USHOL!O 2nd ort Group ‘easiged tp RAP Alcor “or ey tad beon alive pases pt the ite in st Teer etavbmae Jttesst fallow by 2 pile aducet DDunkewell in augur 1913, toahe fonmer operons bu: Reonbory the cute buses now the Carpetbagger GEMISAE song" Special Mascon, which wan oily Operations Grup en the same "on 28 Auge! 83. Gow tn ibe evening a Danguct Ccapinin Ker Batchelor an was fed atthe Rtering Pk CGreup Captain Hugh Verity Hotel wiih Group Captain Joined the Caretbagters im) Venuy a he speaker. Sp ee SItnang ceremony. at ve nloded Group Caplan Tenpefrd.inmenary of ter Batchelor, Colonel Lan froteaualy. Con fans A Cartwright Squad Estes, US Army hie Corps att Ms 34 WW tho was lon fying sv aco. the commander of 35248 Filo with ap RAF teow on a Special Operations Group fission o Face Rleouy, Cone Bon Ore 4 an his ite The French celebrations bogan om August 30 in Pats th 2 French Ar Force band puying while the Gorpeluggers and Magus frarched ap the Champ Eiyoes to lay wreath a the Fon ofthe Urhaown Solder Inne Ave de Triomphe. The Foslowing dy as marked by the mayor's ooepion 3 the Mil Vile a atthe Orie dels Litton Mase, Hel de aie “Tis was lows by com ronan he villages of the Loire sn Ain with four Syst Fecha meting enon of mon lansing ‘Over 200 French people who were in on the weit of the surprise ceremony Tor the URmericns tended the even ei oer aria to Cub members, including Maras Roche who designed te mon timentsE Van Mauri) (Rody) ‘Clube, Col. Paul Riviere. and. Col Francis Commies "Welcome back, Yanks" in Britain and "Bienvenuc” in France atined new meanings for BO Amentane celebrating = Sieh annverar “thc a ayo the st fogh Verity pions onl pew atthe cee here the fit Gtoup Captain Ken Batcetor ae oF con Febuary SS eae. at antary mi Sppoar inte net ews Corpethugacr C-47 Dakota Tanded ia occupied France torned inve s more efficlal speriat Forces Club Newsletter Spring 1994 ‘mew Wo OF OUR OPERATIONAL GROUPS HELD THEIR OWN SEPARATE [REUNIONS PRACTICALLY AT THE SAME TIME/WEEKEND: OUR GREEK (06's Mer IN WASHINGTON DC, AS REPORTED IN ‘THE TWO PAGES BY ‘ANDY NOUSALINAS, WHILE DELBEAETON FROM THE WORSO 06'S io HAD ORIGIWALLY CARRIED (OUT THE SUCCESSFUL CHRISTOPHER MES2ON IN FRANCE (BEFORE GOING swro NoRWAY) -~ RETURNED TO ween wrt WEIR FRENCH [UNDERGROUND ALLIES, AS REPORTED IN| THE FALL 1983 NoRSO NEWSLEFTER.0.8.8. GREEK OG's / 122nd INFANTRY BN 50th Anniversary Sept. 2-5,1993 Washington, D.C. FROM _A_REI (DY_MOUSALIMAS The OSS initially was a covert operation with either individuals or teans of two or three operating behind enemy lines; but in 1949, General Donovan, fan old. infantryman, developed the United states Operational Groups. (Usog’s); units of 15 to 25 men in American Army uniform fron five ethnic backgrounds, slated to join guerrilla forces behind enemy lines in their respective countries, to harass the Nazis. ‘The five nationalities that Were represented were French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian and Yugoslavian. All the men volunteered for hazardous duty and had to speak the language of their respective ethnic group. In August 1943, 200 volunteers, from the soon to be disbanded Greek Battalion at Camp Carson, Colorado, were chosen to forn the Greek 0G’s. Six Greek groups of 27 men each, eventually were parachuted or were sent amphibiously into Greece in 1944 and were deployed from the Lamia area in fhe south to the Drama area in the northeast. The National Archives in Washington Dc has official records of the many missions, casualties and Gamage that this small unit inflicted on the Nazis during the USoG’s operations in Greece and Yugoslavia in 1944 Figty years later, 24 men of the Greck/USOG’s celebrated the soth Anniversary of the’ founding of this elite unit. The reunion was held September 2-5, 1993 in Bethesda, Maryland, near the area where they originally took their connando training. Front row: lett to right, chris Kyriakos, Nick Pappas, Angelo Lygizos, Robert steven avaras,” Angelo Perper, "Warees Valvis, wick faledee, George = ind'dack rout Left to rights andrew ousaltens, eter Dinos, Janes Tomas, Janes Tsolas, Peter Photis, Ansraycos Antonepselons Fheosere Russell, "Theophanes sti janes’ Teepoaksutes, "hiex ‘Pe DMitips, Charles