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Mihailovic hinders Rommel May 8, 2014 By Miloslav Samardzic http://kingdom-of-yugoslavia-in-ww2.com/mihailovic-hinders-rommel/ Mihailovic and Rommel The first known German broadsheet announcing the executions of Serbs due to railway sabotage is dated June 12, 1942. On that day, the Germans shot three rail workers in Smederevo, claiming they had destroyed the brakes on a train. US Col. Robert McDowell, the most educated Allied officer in Yugoslavia during the war, says that any true history of WW2 should mention 1942 as the “year of the great Yugoslav, or Serb, counterattack.” Gen. Mihailovic knew that America would join the war, having heard it from President...

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Art Jibilian hoped his presence here at the largest private air show in the world would, in a small way, help right a terrible wrong that had been done so long ago. Mr. Jibilian, of Fremont Ohio, and surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering squadron of black fighter pilots, were honored here yesterday at AirVenture 2009 for their roles in Operation Halyard, the greatest rescue of downed American airmen in World War II.

The other day I received an e-mail from a reader that told me the Legion of Merit would be presented to the World War II Serbian leader, Draza Mihailovic. I tried, with no luck, finding out when and where that would take place, and whether it was true, as I had been told, that there were efforts to block the presentation. Few Americans, especially young Americans, have ever heard about Mihailovic and his men who, at huge risks to themselves, saved the lives of over 500 Americans and 250 Allied personnel from behind enemy lines. It's been covered up for...

The Axis occupation of former Yugoslavia and the domestic reaction to it present a complex picture. The legacy of these experiences has still not been completely overcome. The German-led onslaught on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941 and ended with that country's capitulation 11 days later. Known from 1918 to 1929 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, the Serbian-dominated state did not make a serious effort to remove the sources of its main domestic problem, namely Croatian discontent, until 1939. In that year, the Belgrade authorities cut a deal with Vlado Macek of the Croatian...

The tattoo on Gurovic's left arm is not covered by his basketball jersey and has angered Croats who perceive General Mihailovic as a villain whose fighters killed Croatian soldiers and civilians in the conflict. The controversial Second World War figure was honoured in 1944 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman with the Legion of Merit award for helping save the lives of dozens of U.S. airman who had been downed by Nazis over the Balkans.

In the vernacular of espionage, he was a "spook," a World War II shadow soldier whose field of operations knew neither front lines nor rear. Art Jibilian was attending Navy radio operators school in 1943, when he was first approached by a recruiter for the Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA. The man told Jibilian of his likely assignments, "Sometimes we will drop you by parachute. Sometimes you will go by submarine. You will have a 50-50 chance of making it back." "He didn't pull any punches," Jibilian recalls today. "He told me the OSS needed radio operators...

US airman under Serbian care Award for Serbian Chetnik leader Dragoljub Mihailovich Award for Serbian Chetnik leader Dragoljub Mihailovich The cover of Time Magazine, May 25, 1942. Their article began: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands...he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls." Open letter—April 9, 1999To Our Troops In The Former Yugoslavia "We Found Out The Truth About the Serbs...When We Were Shot Down"World War II Rescued American Airmen Defend Serbs By Richard L. FelmanOver 500 MlAs Saved By The Serbian People During WWII During World War II, we were in the Army...