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* Web Browser for S60, a web browser for mobile devices, also known as OSS Browser
" The OSS was also focused on the battle for hearts and minds during wartime ; " the very practice of simple sabotage by natives in enemy or occupied territory may make these individuals identify themselves actively with the United Nations War effort, and encourage them to assist openly in periods of Allied invasion and occupation.
* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.
The American Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) also began to send its own agents to France in cooperation with the SOE and the French BCRA agents in Operation Jedburgh.
Sack responded that he had stated his figure for officers in Kattowitz in February, not all members in November, and that he had also written that hundreds of Jews left OSS during the year.
The audio systems OSS, ALSA and PulseAudio have also loopback modules for recording the audio output of applications and testing purposes.
The term also sometimes refers to the software in a Unix kernel that provides the OSS interface ; it can be thought of as a device driver, or a collection of device drivers for sound controller hardware.
Open-source software ( OSS ) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under an open-source license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.
Often, these tools are also available as OSS.
He is also famous for his exploits as an OSS officer during World War II, parachuting into France to coordinate and activate the French Resistance and organizing an operation intended to capture Adolf Hitler.
The British SOE ( Special Operations Executive ) Welrod assassination pistol with an integral suppressor was also used by the American OSS on clandestine operations in Nazi occupied Europe during the Second World War.
Fritz Kolbe, a German diplomat and courier based in Berlin who had become an American spy after a meeting in Bern, Switzerland with the OSS, also provided information about ' Cicero '.
It also provides all the required data to the operation support subsystem ( OSS ) as well as to the performance measuring centers.
Former OSS agent William Gowen has also given deposition as an expert witness that in 1946 Colonel Ivan Babić transported 10 truckloads of gold from Switzerland to the Pontifical College.
From 1943 to 1945, the OSS also played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese army.
OSS also helped arm, train and supply resistance movements, including Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army in China and the Viet Minh in French Indochina, in areas occupied by the Axis powers.
It also received the 2009 Grand Prize in OSS Challenge in Korea and receives the China-Japan-Korea Open Source Software Contest Award successively since 2008.
U. S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ), American Red Cross, and the United Service Organizations ( USO ).
* Jeanette Guyot, French Army – A French resistance operative and OSS Sussex Team member, Jeanette Guyot was one of only two female recipients of the Army Distinguished Service Cross in World War II ( the other was also an OSS operative, U. S. civilian Virginia Hall ).
OSS software is also responsible for issuing commands to the network infrastructure to activate new service offerings, commence services for new customers, and detect and correct network faults.
* 2nd Lieutenant Walter W. Taylor USMCR, another member of the OSS, also captured in France in August 1944.
However, as a member of the OSS, Holt also has secondary objectives for each level, including finding documents and eliminating important German officers, such as henchmen belonging to the antagonist Graf Von Schrader.
During the War, Kersten also provided information to the OSS ( predecessor of the CIA ).

OSS and recruited
From 1943 – 1945, the OSS played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited Kachin, and other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese Army.
Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.
* The 1946 film Cloak and Dagger stars Gary Cooper as a scientist recruited to OSS to exfiltrate a German scientist defecting to the allies with the help of a woman guerrilla and her partisans.
He was recruited by Albert Jolis of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) Seventh Army detachment.
Saarinen was recruited by Donal McLaughlin, an architectural school friend from his Yale days, to join the military service in the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).
The OSS actively recruited German POWs who were opposed to Hitler to form a special forces unit, outfitted with SS uniforms and highly trained in " raid and snatch " techniques.
In 1941 Applegate was developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army when he was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS, specifically to build and run what was called " The School for Spies and Assassins ", the location of which is now Camp David.
As the plot progresses, Manon is recruited to the OSS and takes on covert missions in occupied Europe and Africa.
Set prior to the start of the original Medal of Honor game, Underground follows Manon's journey from a naive member of one of France's first resistance movements to that of a seasoned veteran recruited by the OSS who ultimately becomes a key figure in the Allied invasion at Normandy.
In 1942 Robert Dexter, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, recruited Noel Field to pass on information to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).
When the United States entered World War II, Peers was recruited into the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

OSS and one
Bank advised the OSS of Ho's great popularity, recommended that Ho be allowed to form a coalition government, and predicted that Ho would win a popular election overwhelmingly if one was conducted.
Captain Horace Hahn, a member of the OSS, was one of the few Americans allowed to interrogate General Schellenberg.
) To make up the numbers, Questore Pietro Caruso chief of the Fascist police in Rome, offered some Italians from his Regina Coeli prison, one of whom, Maurizio Giglio, had been his own Lieutenant, before being unmasked as a double agent working for the American OSS in charge of radio communications with the Fifth Army.
A TPWS transmitter loop, one of a pair that form an Overspeed Sensor System ( OSS )
Foster was one of the first OSS agents to reach Indonesia after the Japanese surrender in 1945, where she interviewed Sukarno to discover whether he planned to align himself with Allied interests.
Available in an OSS bank-selected cartridge and a double-sided disk ( Master disk on one side, dictionary disk on the other side ).
Koc School's notable alumni include Cengiz Pehlevan, who got the first place in 2000 University Entrance Exam ( OSS ); Mehmet Özge Özen, writer ; Tansa Mermerci, socialite and fashion designer ; Berrak Tüzünataç, actress ; Berkun Oya, artist and playwright ; Ozgur Gungor, the notable New York based sculptor, Pelin Kivrak, literary scholar, who graduated in 2007 was accepted to Harvard with full scholarship and later went to Yale for a PHD in Comparative Literature and Enes Ayaz, who graduated in 2008 was accepted to Harvard, MIT, Yale with full scholarship and touted as one of the " Future 25 " by the Time Magazine.
Though the first OSS 117 n ' est pas mort ( OSS 117 Is Not Dead ) film with Ivan Desny in the lead was already made in 1957, a popular series of several OSS 117 films started no earlier than in 1963, following the French release of Dr. No with Kerwin Mathews in two, director André Hunebelle's discovery Frederick Stafford in two more, John Gavin in one ( replacing Stafford who was starring in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz ( 1969 film ), then with Luc Merenda and Alan Scott in two in the 1970s that were French made for TV films.
At the wedding reception Edward accepts an offer of a position in the London OSS office from General Sullivan, requiring him to be in England in one week, leaving his newlywed wife.
Dimitri was a staunch anti-Communist and member of the OSS and one of the founders of the CIA's Radio Free Europe and Amcomlib ( a. k. a., Radio Liberty ) stations.
OSS then came out with improved versions, one of which was EASMD.

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