The Office of Strategic Services and Army Air Corps begin Operation Carpetbagger in occupied Europe. The operation air-dropped weapons, ammunition, and supplies to guerrilla fighters in France, Italy, and the Low Countries resisting Nazi and Fascist occupations.
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