The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Males Who Risked All for the Best Rescue Mission of World Struggle II: The Untold Story of the Males Who Risked All … the GreatestRescue Mission of World Struggle II

The astonishing, by no means earlier than informed story of the best rescue mission of World Struggle II—when the OSS got down to get better greater than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy strains in Yugoslavia…


Throughout a bombing marketing campaign over Romanian oil fields, tons of of American airmen have been shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Native Serbian farmers and peasants risked their very own lives to provide refuge to the troopers whereas they waited for rescue, and in 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The dangers have been unimaginable. The ravenous Individuals in Yugoslavia needed to assemble a touchdown strip massive sufficient for C-47 cargo planes—with out instruments, with out alerting the Germans, and with out endangering the villagers. And the cargo planes needed to make it by means of enemy airspace and again—with out getting shot down themselves.

 

Categorised for over half a century for political causes, the total account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravado is now being informed for the primary time ever.
The Forgotten 500 is the gripping, behind-the-scenes have a look at the best escape of World Struggle II.

“Superb [and] riveting.”—James Bradley, New York Instances bestselling creator of Flags of Our Fathers