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Thank you for posting this...It was an amazing raid.... And we did pay dearly...Let us not forget the Serb underground that saved many of our men to...On subsequent
raids on ploesti....

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>Thank you for posting this...It was an amazing raid.... And
>we did pay dearly...Let us not forget the Serb underground
>that saved many of our men to...

Amen for the underground, my Grandfather was one of the people that was shot down on a raid over Ploesti, and rescued by the Serb underground.

Some info about it is here:

Felman was not my grandfather, but he was one of his fellow airmen on their plane, the "Never a Dull Moment".

http://www.suc.org/culture/history/wwii/felman.html?Suc_Session=ee43dde18a6b3f2af18b8df2dc423b8f

A pretty detailed accout of what they faced:
http://www.suc.org/culture/history/Draza_Mihailovich/rescue.html

And an account of the rescue mission:
http://www.pogledi.co.yu/english/pranjani.php