• Source: Special Operations Branch

The Special Operations Branch (SO) was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that "pioneered" many of the unconventional warfare, counter-insurgency (COIN), and foreign internal defense tactics and techniques used by today's US Military Special Operations Forces (SOF). Special Operations was the American equivalent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) of the United Kingdom.
The Chief of SO, Millard Preston Goodfellow, reported to the deputy director of Strategic Services Operations.
In the Special Operations Field Manual, OSS Director William Donovan writes;
"The mission of the Special Operations Branch is to carry out that part of the OSS mission which can be accomplished by certain physical subversive methods as contrasted with the operations of the Morale Operations, the Operational Groups, and the Maritime Unit. The primary objective of the Special Operations Branch is the destruction of enemy personnel, materiel, and installations."
Special Operations operators and agents trained first at Camp X, then at Camp David, and several National Park Service properties around the Washington, D.C. area.
The concept of OSS Operational Groups (OG) began as Special Operations units within SO Field Bases, but eventually outgrew the SO, where the newly established Operational Group Command was granted Branch status.




Responsibilities




Sabotage
Types of Sabotage
Industrial Sabotage
Military Sabotage
Political and Public Sabotage
Methods of Sabotage
Sabotage applied to individuals
Sabotage by destruction
Sabotage by Resistance
Coup de Main Projects
Defense Missions
Direct contact with and support of underground resistance groups.
Conduct of special operations not assigned to other governmental agencies and not under direct control of theater or area commanders.
Organization, equipment, and training of such individuals or organizations as may be required for operations not assigned to other governmental agencies.




Divisions


Headquarters
Special Operations was headquartered at the E Street Complex in Washington, D.C.
Field Base Sections

London
Burma
Yugoslavia
France
Italy
Norway
JEDBURGH




References

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