The Forgotten 500
The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
by Gregory A. Freeman
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appears in For Dads, History, and Nonfiction.
The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War IIwhen the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazioccupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants risked...
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appears in For Dads, History, and Nonfiction.
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