Название: The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Автор: Gregory A. Freeman
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0451222121
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 333
Размер: 3,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...
During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers while they waited for rescue, and in 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The risks were incredible. The starving Americans in Yugoslavia had to construct a landing strip large enough for C-47 cargo planes—without tools, without alerting the Germans, and without endangering the villagers. And the cargo planes had to make it through enemy airspace and back—without getting shot down themselves.