Posted on 11/16/2010 2:30:31 PM PST by Ravnagora
Operation Halyard was managed by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services’ Nick Lalich (front row, third from left) and radio operator Arthur Jibilian (back row, second from left).
For U.S. airmen trapped in Yugoslavia during World War II, building a secret airstrip was their only way out.
On Clare Musgrove’s first mission over Ploesti, Romania, he and the crew of his U.S. Army Air Forces bomber were certain to be shot at. Romania supplied the oil the Nazi war machine desperately needed for its tanks, trucks, and aircraft. While the Germans vowed to protect the flow of oil from Romanian wells at all costs, in 1943 and ’44, the Americans grew just as determined to choke production.
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Ping!
Even back then ...
Even back then ...
I read that and just shook my head. You're right... even back then.
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