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George Vujnovich, an American intelligence agent who led the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines during World War II, died last week at the age of 96, according to media reports. In 1944, the Serbian-American officer in the Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency) organized successful efforts to insert a team into what was then Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and rescue more than 500 pilots and airmen who had been downed trying to cross the territory to bomb Hitler’s oil fields in Romania, according to an obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The airmen had been hidden...

by Sandy Marquette Tribute to Major Richard L. Felman Goodbye To a Tireless Warrior Major Richard L. Felman (U.S.A.F., ret.) May 29, 1921 - November 13, 1999 He never stopped. It became his mission in life. For 55 years, over half of this 20th Century, Major Richard L. Felman of the United States Air Force worked ceaselessly to do one thing. To repay a debt of gratitude. To say Thank You. As we in America celebrate our Thanksgiving, it is our turn to say Thank You to a man that we who knew him will never forget. Writing these things...