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To: wideawake; MattinNJ
Which of "our guys" did they rescue, exactly?

It was the largest rescue of Allied airmen behind the lines in the entire war

here

here again

here again again

yet again, just google serbian rescue allied pilots wwII

12 posted on 07/22/2008 7:23:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (Myself and my ancestors take full responsibility for all racial discrimination here since 1607)
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To: wardaddy; MattinNJ
Why post just 4 links to Richard Felman's account?

Why not post 400 links, all referencing the exact same individual's memoirs?

Felman's account makes it clear: one of the five or six factions fighting for control of Serbia in 1944 - specifically Mihailovic's Chetnik splinter group - helped to airlift out Allied airmen.

Why did the Mihailovic column have to do this? Because other Serbs, like the Pecanac faction of the Chetniks or the Nedic VNS forces wanted to find and kill them - as did the Germans and the Italians.

"The Serbs" in general did not rescue these men. Dragoljub Mihailovic and his small group of supporters did, and he rescued them from other Serbs who would have killed them.

13 posted on 07/23/2008 6:16:44 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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