Prince William Forest Park

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Photos of Prince William Forest Park from 1942-1945 when it was used by the OSS to train spies. All photos are credited to the National Archives and Records Administration.

Area A-4 - Headquarters

The buildings of the headquarters of the Special Operations training group.

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Making Pies for Spies

Cooks made first class meals for OSS recruits such as these pies!

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Small arms training

New recruits learned everything from how to shoot small arms to how to blow up a building.

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Spies type in morse code

Transmitting and decoding messages was a very important part of the training new recruits received while at Chopawamsic.

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Decoding

New recruits had to learn not only to put messages into morse code, but also to receive messages in morse code and translate them into english text.

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Learning to set up radio antennae

Spies learn to set up and take down radio antennae quickly for use behind enemy lines.

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Down time

Even spies need down time.

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More code work

The OSS recruits in Area C (Communications Branch) learned to code and decode messages.

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