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The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Search and rescue operations $z Yugoslavia. $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.-From publisher description. $a In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Going home shoeless - Gales of the world - Secrets and lies. ![]() waiting for rescue - Sure to be a rough landing - Red. $a We'll get them out - Abandon ship! - Counting parachutes - Americanski? - Long journey to somewhere - Escaping Yugoslavia - Passports, please - Man of the year - Abandoned ally - Screw the British - Goats' milk and hay bread - An all-American team - SOS. ![]() $a Includes bibliographical references (p. During WWII one of the Nazis’ main sources of fuel was an oil refinery in Ploesti, Romania. This is one of those stories, a true story. $a xv, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations $c 24 cm Freeman Every once in a while you discover a book that envelopes your emotions and you wonder how those events could happen. $a The forgotten 500 : $b the untold story of the men who risked all for the greatest rescue mission of World War II / $c Gregory A. $a DLC $c DLC $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d C#P $d BUR $d DLC $d SKYRV $e rda ![]()
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