Charles Pinck ’76 has produced a fourth short documentary for The OSS Society, “Filming Under Fire: John Ford’s OSS Field Photo Branch.” The film tells the story of Hollywood director John Ford’s heroic service as the Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Branch commander during World War II. It was an official selection of two Academy Award-qualifying film festivals last year. It was also shown by the CIA to its personnel worldwide and at Normandy by the US Special Operations Command, to commemorate last year’s 80th anniversary of D-Day. Charles met director Steven Spielberg at the D-Day ceremony and shared his film with him. After watching it, Spielberg thanked him for “preserving this history and keeping it in our conversations 80 years later.” Charles is president of The OSS Society, a nonprofit organization that honors the OSS’s legacy as the predecessor to the CIA and the US Special Operations Command and educates the American public about the importance of strategic intelligence and special operations to the preservation of freedom.
