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The OSS Missions: Behind Enemy Lines | ||
The OSS continued to support the Resistance with air drops through the Winter of 1944. In November 1944, British Marshall Alexander, the head of the Allied Army in Italy, asked the partisans to stop their operations during the cold season. The air missions slowed down but never stopped, thus allowing many partisan brigades to resist on the mountains during that hard winter. The OSS drops and the OG missions behind the lines increased definitively beginning with January 1945, when American General Clark took over the command in Italy. Their main task was to destroy bridges and the major routes in the North in order to prevent the German retreat, in preparation of the final Allied attack against the Gothic Line and the general partisan insurrection of April 1945. |
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