[Daffynition]

In this Dec. 28, 1944 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, OSS Capt. George Vujnovich, right, stands in Bari, Italy with a group of Allied airmen he helped rescue after they were downed over Nazi occupied Serbia

[Does so]

Worth repeating. ;)

[tanknetter]

"The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II" by Gregory A. Freeman is a fantastic book about the rescue mission. And also of the complete sell-out by the Allies of the Yugoslavians who helped make it happened in favor of Tito.

[Nip]

This mission has been a case study for Special Air Operations since the mid-1970’s that I am personally aware of. In fact, this operation and some of the problems it had to overcome were the base line for the MC-130 series of aircraft.

Hopefully we will never again see many Americans trapped behind enemy lines.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I am curious as to why it took so long to award this medal? It seems that we hear of these (late) medals being awarded every month, or so. Did somebody just slip up? Or, have the critera changed in the interveneing years?

It seems that JFKerry got a medal for a grain of rice imbedded in is butt while true heros have waited their entire lives for thanks, or recogniton.

[BenLurkin]

“bomber fliers”? I think they mean airmen.

[TexasRepublic]

My former neighbor and employer was an American bomber pilot who was shot down over Yugoslavia and rescued, probably by that organization. The local partisans hid him and others for a week until a rescue could be arranged. On the night of the rescue, the pilots were hidden in foxholes in a field next to an improvised landing strip. They were dispersed over a large area so that if the Nazis discovered them and began shelling the field, they would not all perish due to one unlucky hit. He said it was cold, and the longest, scariest night of his life. An airplane touched down for less than a minute, as every pilot scrambled from his hole, ran and climbed aboard. He was the one who originally told me that “there are no atheists in foxholes”.

[SunkenCiv]

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