¿Decidió?

[VivaEspana]

In the summer of 1944, General William Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, decided to compile a general history of the agency.

Traducciones:

En el verano del 1944, el Generál William Donovan, el Directór de la Oficína de los Servícios Estratégico, decídio a compilar una história genéral de la agencia.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by VivaEspana

In the summer of 1944, General William Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services, decided to compile a general history of the agency.

Traducciones:

En el verano del 1944, el General William Donovan, el Director de la Oficina de los Servicios Estratégicos, decidió a compilar una historia general de la agencia.

[VivaEspana]

Muchas gracias!

He appointeed one of his agents, the Harvard historian Conyers Read, to head a history office under the direct supervision of OSS deputy director Otto Doering.

Traducciones:

Ello nombráron único de sus ágentes, el historíador de Harvard Conyers Read, pará encabezár una oficína histórico bajo la supervisión dirécto del directór adjúnto de OSS Otto Doering.

[jrivera]

There are some more errors in the traslation:

"En el verano del 1944, el General William Donovan, Director de la Oficina de los Servicios Estratégicos, decidió compilar la historia general de la agencia."

It's not correct to use again "el" when you refer to "el director de la oficina". And I won't use capital D in Director if you don't use it in english.

"Decidir" doesn't go with the preposition 'a". Unless you are using it in the reflexive mode: "Se decició a", which means emphasis and previous dubitation.

And "compilar" it's not a common word used in spanish. Here it would be "decició reunir" or "decidió editar / publicar" = Decided to publish (it's not exactly the same, i know... but "compilar" sounds weird.

hope it helps!


The other one would be:

He appointeed one of his agents, the Harvard historian Conyers Read, to head a history office under the direct supervision of OSS deputy director Otto Doering.

[El] escogió a uno de sus agentes, el historiador de Harvard Conyers Read, para dirigir (better than encabezar) un departamento de historia bajo la supervisión directa del director adjunto de OSS Otto Doering.

[El] you can use it or not.

nombró could be also ok, but i think it sounds better escogio (=chose)