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Found this article today. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/18/2010-10-18_george_vujnovich_orchestrator_of_largest_air_rescue_of_american_soldiers_awarded.html Malke 2010 ( talk) 21:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thomas J. Craughwell, Great Rescues of WORL WAR II-- Свифт ( talk) 21:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Operation Halyard, Serbia, 1944
-- Свифт ( talk) 22:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
This article is about the Rescue pilots by the Chetniks and Mission Halyard. If you want to write about the Rescue pilots by the Partisans write a separate article. What you have written to the Chetniks rescued Ustasha pilots do not even want to comment.-- Свифт ( talk) 07:33, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
This article is about the operation Halyard and rescue Allied pilots from the Chetniks. If you have evidence that the Chetniks rescued and the other pilots you can write a separate article on the operation. I suppose that is the operation also was had codenamed. Halyard Mission was a secret military operation of the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. Air Force and the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland. So that this article applies only to that mission.-- Свифт ( talk) 09:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
No B-29s EVER operated in Europe during World War II. 173.62.39.116 ( talk) 18:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
To be brief:
-- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 15:14, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I am not offended yours nation, I only said that Croatia was a Nazi state in WW2. And it is true. Statement of Congressman Burton I not a used as referenucu but as an example. To you learned something! Too many you believe the book of Philip Cohen. Medical doctor Philip Cohen, a man who heals people, he wrote the book "Serbia's Secret War". The very title of the book is controversial and represent the yellow press. So problematic of titles you can write a book on any nation. The doctor wrote a history of Serbia but is not a historian. This controversial book deals with the conspiracy theory. This book is anti-Serbian and not scientific but "the easy" and sensationalist book. Also, in this yellow book, is not studied Operation Halyard. And you who don know nothing about this rescue operation! You did not know the all the names of members of the Halyard Mission.You have stated that the Chetniks (Serbs) killed the American pilots and that was untrue. Your intention is clear you want to reduce the importance of this great rescue operation. You can not change the truth and for you the pain truth. That your problem!-- Свифт ( talk) 14:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
The Germans are not interested in politics, they take everything from a military point of view. They need troops that can hold certain positions and clear certain areas of the Partisans. If they ask us to do it, we cannot do it. The Chetniks can.
Ustaše Major Mirko Blaž, March 5, 1944
Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia are were ethnic minorities. That state has pursued genocide against them. The same thing happened in Dalmatia. To avoid the complete destruction were signed agreements with local authorities (with local Croatian authorities and the German military unit). But not and with the Croatian government and the German high command. These local agreements were particularly disappointing for Croatia and the German army, because they recognized the armed formation a an national minority in Croatia, which they regarded as the enemy. On Serbs in the Nazi Croatia was carried out genocide, and they Serbs rebels are managed to prevent even more deaths ( The Holocaust in Croatia). You are trying to Serbs, who were the victims to present as a Nazi and that was your work is made by propaganda on this project.
On the first your picture is the Serbian Volunteer Corps, which operates during the war only in the area of German occupation zone of Serbia. On another image are the members of Chetnik movement Kosta Pećanac, which operates only during the war in Germany occupation zone of Serbia. Both organizations had police authority. Serbs during the Second World War not had its own state and a not were allies of the Third Reich, but were one of the biggest victims of Adolph Hitler and Ante Pavelić ( Jasenovac concentration camp). You twisting historical facts and serve are propaganda.-- Свифт ( talk) 21:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
This article is supposed to be about OSS Operation Halyard, which evacuated rescued aircrew by air, and ran from 2 August (the date Musulin parachuted into Ravna Gora) to 27 December 1944 (when Lalich evacuated from the airstrip at Boljanici). According to Lalich's report to the OSS on the mission, 417 aircrew were rescued during the mission, of which 343 were US aircrew. This article conflates all allied aircrew rescues with the assistance of the Chetniks as part of Operation Halyard, and thereby is inaccurately titled. If the article is to be about all aircrew rescues done with the assistance of the Chetniks, then it should be called that. If it is about Operaton Halyard, it needs to be limited to that mission, although a brief mention that the Chetniks assisted in other rescues would be fine. I will commence editing this down to remove the non-Operation Halyard material shortly unless there is some discussion and agreement here. My reference for the dates and number of aircrew is Tomasevich Vol 1 p.378, which quotes from Lalich's report. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 02:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
[5] This picture shows President Roosevelt taking part in the dedication of four B-24 Liberators that were to be operated by a unit of 40 Yugoslav airmen who had escaped the fall of Yugoslavia. These four planes flew with the 376th Bombardment Group, from bases in the Middle East.
The RYAF (Royal Yugoslav Air Force) was assigned to the 376 BG / 512 BS in Oct 43. The RYAF B-24s flew as #20 thru #23. #23 is the only one to have survived the war. [6] [7]
Number 24 is now in the Wright Patterson Air Museum - Dayton, OH [8] [9]-- Свифт ( talk) 07:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
This article gives the impression of a very clumsily machine-translated version. I have not copyedited some sections for fear of changing the meaning and because I didn't understand them! The standard of English is not good. The article still needs a lot of work; in some cases, just to mae it readable.
One contradiction that I noticed was in the 'Mission' section: "This operation took place between August and December 1944."
But in the preceding 'The evacuation from Boljanić' section, para 4, it states: "Two C-47s lifted 25 airmen from Boljanić in late February 1945 in very cold weather. This was the last evacuation. [my emphasis]
Which is it?
RASAM ( talk) 21:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
The official mission "Halyard" lasted from August 2 to 27th to December 1944. But after that, the evacuation was carried out in February of 1945th. Also, before the U.S. airlift there was a first evacuation on 29th May 1944th with British aircraft. These two evacuations were not part of Operation Halyard. Because of all this, in the Serbian historiography the evacuation of the rescued pilot is called simply "Operation airlift".-- Свифт ( talk) 07:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
This is given as a quote from a report"
The plane landed between two groups of Bulgarians from two hundred Bulgarian troops. I ordered immediately to be with 500 of our soldiers who are blocking the Bulgarians. The crew was rescued alive and well. Them are nine...
Two groups of Bulgarians from two hundred Bulgarian troops?
Them are nine... ?
If someone has the original reference, was this how it was written? If not, please correct. Thomas R. Fasulo ( talk) 00:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
G'day. There is a serious lack of inline citation in this article. I thought I would just demonstrate this in the 'Rescue of American Airmen' section for starters. Anything making a serious or controversial claim (such as the killing of aircrew by Axis forces, Mihailovic demonstrating control over his commanders via orders, etc needs a source. Also, I have deleted the two operations that were linked at the bottom. They have nothing to do with Operation Halyard, and they relate to events that occurred two or three years earlier. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 09:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Tomasevich quotes Lalich's report on Operation Halyard. You'd reckon Lalich would know. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 06:43, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Here's how Craughwell is described: 'Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World, Failures of the Presidents, and The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History. He has written articles on history, religion, politics, and popular cultures for the Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator, and US News & World Report.' He's not a historian, he's a popular writer who covers a lot of ground. I can't see how he's a reliable source, he's not an academic at all, and his research appears to have been reading Freeman. Fadis is just repeating Freeman. So you have Freeman. Now we just have to see what Freeman actually says about Halyard and decide if we should say there is a range of numbers between Lalich's figure quoted by Tomasevich and Freeman's figure, or whether Freeman is conflating other rescues. As far as the 'greatest rescue' is concerned, with either figure it pales alongside the total number rescued by the Partisans, and Craughwell's quote just looks like a straight lift from Freeman (verbatim in fact). So not sure what you have there. Not much. Happy to discuss exactly what's in Freeman though, and in the meantime I will amend the lede at least to show the difference of opinion about the numbers. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 07:02, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
This section relates to the evacuation of the Armstrong mission, and has nothing to do with Operation Halyard. I'm just flagging that I will delete it shortly as not being relevant to Operation Halyard (like the non-airlift evacuations I deleted earlier). Peacemaker67 ( talk) 09:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
George Vujnovich died 4/24/2012 - http://news.yahoo.com/oss-agent-led-wwii-rescue-500-dies-ny-002540215.html and http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-vujnovich-20120501,0,992343.story Irish Melkite ( talk) 10:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Which is it, then? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
USAF Colonel John Capello and me were researching Halyard Operation for more than six years in the United States, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Operation Halyard was conducted by the 15th Air Force Air Crew Rescue Unit 1, OSS and Chetniks. Partisans were not involved in this particular operation (separate Air Crew Rescue Unit was attached to Partisans). Please keep daily politics, nationalistic and communistic propaganda away from this subject. Thank you. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 20:17, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Peacemaker67! Controversy section of the Halyard Op page is unsourced, in conflict with reliable sources and contain major factual errors. Claim "Mihalović assisted the US airborne evac of about 250 from Chetnik territory in Aug 1944" is a factual error - according to Tomasevich, Ford, Leary and Freeman Mihailović assisted the US airborne evacuation Halyard from July till December. Claim "This simply meant that the Chetniks allowed the Americans to use their airstrip for the evacuation – scarcely a particularly heroic action" is also a factual error - according to Ford, Leary, Freeman there was no airstrip to be used for mass evacuation so US mission jointly with the Chetniks, 300 local Serbs (with sixty ox carts) had to clear meadow and level the terrain in order to create suitable airstrip. According to same reliable sources Serbian farmers and Chetniks fed and sheltered crash landed airmen and provided medical treatment of wounded/injured etc. Claim "Mihailovic’s Chetniks rescued German airmen and handed them over safely to the German armed forces – were he so inclined, Schroeder could follow Washington’s example" is not supported by verifiable source. What is your view on that matter? Regards, D. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 15:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Peacemaker67, article you have posted above doesn`t exist on the HJS website. Are you implying that google docs are to be considered reliable source and suitable to contrast majority of reliable sources? I am not drawing implications. Factual conflict with majority of reliable sources (Ford, Leary, Matteson, Freeman and Tomasevich) is clear in terms of the assistance time span and degree of the assistance. According to this article Halyard Op was limited to August and Chetniks simply allowed OSS to use the airstrip. Claim of German airmen being rescued by Mihailovic`s forces is rather unique and not supported by other findings (Tomasevich, Ford, Matteson, Leary, Freeman). Controversy section doesn`t follow chronological order of the whole page - Legion of Merit was not given during the operation but in 1948. Regards, D. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 18:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Is for the main part word-for-word from Leary's Fueling the Fires of Resistance. As is the last paragraph of the section "Airlift from Pranjani to Bari". Needs rewriting. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 20:34, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
July 4, 2014. I just met a former POW from WWII who was one of those rescued by Operation Halyard. I was standing in line waiting to pay for my purchase at Vince's Produce in Linthicum, MD and noticed a gentleman wearing a WWII Veteran's hat with a B-24 pin attached. I thanked him for his service and we just started to talk. His daughter mentioned his capture and being POW in Yugoslavia and the fact that his name was the last name of those who were extracted. I'm sorry I didn't get his name and more info, but they did say he's in the book. What a great way, and memory, for me to have this happen today, on our Nation's celebration of our freedom!
Charlie C. MSgt Ret, USAF Vietnam 1969/1973 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.106.240.237 ( talk) 21:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
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Found this article today. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/18/2010-10-18_george_vujnovich_orchestrator_of_largest_air_rescue_of_american_soldiers_awarded.html Malke 2010 ( talk) 21:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thomas J. Craughwell, Great Rescues of WORL WAR II-- Свифт ( talk) 21:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Operation Halyard, Serbia, 1944
-- Свифт ( talk) 22:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
This article is about the Rescue pilots by the Chetniks and Mission Halyard. If you want to write about the Rescue pilots by the Partisans write a separate article. What you have written to the Chetniks rescued Ustasha pilots do not even want to comment.-- Свифт ( talk) 07:33, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
This article is about the operation Halyard and rescue Allied pilots from the Chetniks. If you have evidence that the Chetniks rescued and the other pilots you can write a separate article on the operation. I suppose that is the operation also was had codenamed. Halyard Mission was a secret military operation of the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. Air Force and the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland. So that this article applies only to that mission.-- Свифт ( talk) 09:24, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
No B-29s EVER operated in Europe during World War II. 173.62.39.116 ( talk) 18:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
To be brief:
-- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 15:14, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I am not offended yours nation, I only said that Croatia was a Nazi state in WW2. And it is true. Statement of Congressman Burton I not a used as referenucu but as an example. To you learned something! Too many you believe the book of Philip Cohen. Medical doctor Philip Cohen, a man who heals people, he wrote the book "Serbia's Secret War". The very title of the book is controversial and represent the yellow press. So problematic of titles you can write a book on any nation. The doctor wrote a history of Serbia but is not a historian. This controversial book deals with the conspiracy theory. This book is anti-Serbian and not scientific but "the easy" and sensationalist book. Also, in this yellow book, is not studied Operation Halyard. And you who don know nothing about this rescue operation! You did not know the all the names of members of the Halyard Mission.You have stated that the Chetniks (Serbs) killed the American pilots and that was untrue. Your intention is clear you want to reduce the importance of this great rescue operation. You can not change the truth and for you the pain truth. That your problem!-- Свифт ( talk) 14:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
The Germans are not interested in politics, they take everything from a military point of view. They need troops that can hold certain positions and clear certain areas of the Partisans. If they ask us to do it, we cannot do it. The Chetniks can.
Ustaše Major Mirko Blaž, March 5, 1944
Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia are were ethnic minorities. That state has pursued genocide against them. The same thing happened in Dalmatia. To avoid the complete destruction were signed agreements with local authorities (with local Croatian authorities and the German military unit). But not and with the Croatian government and the German high command. These local agreements were particularly disappointing for Croatia and the German army, because they recognized the armed formation a an national minority in Croatia, which they regarded as the enemy. On Serbs in the Nazi Croatia was carried out genocide, and they Serbs rebels are managed to prevent even more deaths ( The Holocaust in Croatia). You are trying to Serbs, who were the victims to present as a Nazi and that was your work is made by propaganda on this project.
On the first your picture is the Serbian Volunteer Corps, which operates during the war only in the area of German occupation zone of Serbia. On another image are the members of Chetnik movement Kosta Pećanac, which operates only during the war in Germany occupation zone of Serbia. Both organizations had police authority. Serbs during the Second World War not had its own state and a not were allies of the Third Reich, but were one of the biggest victims of Adolph Hitler and Ante Pavelić ( Jasenovac concentration camp). You twisting historical facts and serve are propaganda.-- Свифт ( talk) 21:52, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
This article is supposed to be about OSS Operation Halyard, which evacuated rescued aircrew by air, and ran from 2 August (the date Musulin parachuted into Ravna Gora) to 27 December 1944 (when Lalich evacuated from the airstrip at Boljanici). According to Lalich's report to the OSS on the mission, 417 aircrew were rescued during the mission, of which 343 were US aircrew. This article conflates all allied aircrew rescues with the assistance of the Chetniks as part of Operation Halyard, and thereby is inaccurately titled. If the article is to be about all aircrew rescues done with the assistance of the Chetniks, then it should be called that. If it is about Operaton Halyard, it needs to be limited to that mission, although a brief mention that the Chetniks assisted in other rescues would be fine. I will commence editing this down to remove the non-Operation Halyard material shortly unless there is some discussion and agreement here. My reference for the dates and number of aircrew is Tomasevich Vol 1 p.378, which quotes from Lalich's report. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 02:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
[5] This picture shows President Roosevelt taking part in the dedication of four B-24 Liberators that were to be operated by a unit of 40 Yugoslav airmen who had escaped the fall of Yugoslavia. These four planes flew with the 376th Bombardment Group, from bases in the Middle East.
The RYAF (Royal Yugoslav Air Force) was assigned to the 376 BG / 512 BS in Oct 43. The RYAF B-24s flew as #20 thru #23. #23 is the only one to have survived the war. [6] [7]
Number 24 is now in the Wright Patterson Air Museum - Dayton, OH [8] [9]-- Свифт ( talk) 07:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
This article gives the impression of a very clumsily machine-translated version. I have not copyedited some sections for fear of changing the meaning and because I didn't understand them! The standard of English is not good. The article still needs a lot of work; in some cases, just to mae it readable.
One contradiction that I noticed was in the 'Mission' section: "This operation took place between August and December 1944."
But in the preceding 'The evacuation from Boljanić' section, para 4, it states: "Two C-47s lifted 25 airmen from Boljanić in late February 1945 in very cold weather. This was the last evacuation. [my emphasis]
Which is it?
RASAM ( talk) 21:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
The official mission "Halyard" lasted from August 2 to 27th to December 1944. But after that, the evacuation was carried out in February of 1945th. Also, before the U.S. airlift there was a first evacuation on 29th May 1944th with British aircraft. These two evacuations were not part of Operation Halyard. Because of all this, in the Serbian historiography the evacuation of the rescued pilot is called simply "Operation airlift".-- Свифт ( talk) 07:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
This is given as a quote from a report"
The plane landed between two groups of Bulgarians from two hundred Bulgarian troops. I ordered immediately to be with 500 of our soldiers who are blocking the Bulgarians. The crew was rescued alive and well. Them are nine...
Two groups of Bulgarians from two hundred Bulgarian troops?
Them are nine... ?
If someone has the original reference, was this how it was written? If not, please correct. Thomas R. Fasulo ( talk) 00:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
G'day. There is a serious lack of inline citation in this article. I thought I would just demonstrate this in the 'Rescue of American Airmen' section for starters. Anything making a serious or controversial claim (such as the killing of aircrew by Axis forces, Mihailovic demonstrating control over his commanders via orders, etc needs a source. Also, I have deleted the two operations that were linked at the bottom. They have nothing to do with Operation Halyard, and they relate to events that occurred two or three years earlier. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 09:29, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Tomasevich quotes Lalich's report on Operation Halyard. You'd reckon Lalich would know. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 06:43, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Here's how Craughwell is described: 'Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World, Failures of the Presidents, and The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History. He has written articles on history, religion, politics, and popular cultures for the Wall Street Journal, the American Spectator, and US News & World Report.' He's not a historian, he's a popular writer who covers a lot of ground. I can't see how he's a reliable source, he's not an academic at all, and his research appears to have been reading Freeman. Fadis is just repeating Freeman. So you have Freeman. Now we just have to see what Freeman actually says about Halyard and decide if we should say there is a range of numbers between Lalich's figure quoted by Tomasevich and Freeman's figure, or whether Freeman is conflating other rescues. As far as the 'greatest rescue' is concerned, with either figure it pales alongside the total number rescued by the Partisans, and Craughwell's quote just looks like a straight lift from Freeman (verbatim in fact). So not sure what you have there. Not much. Happy to discuss exactly what's in Freeman though, and in the meantime I will amend the lede at least to show the difference of opinion about the numbers. Peacemaker67 ( talk) 07:02, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
This section relates to the evacuation of the Armstrong mission, and has nothing to do with Operation Halyard. I'm just flagging that I will delete it shortly as not being relevant to Operation Halyard (like the non-airlift evacuations I deleted earlier). Peacemaker67 ( talk) 09:12, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
George Vujnovich died 4/24/2012 - http://news.yahoo.com/oss-agent-led-wwii-rescue-500-dies-ny-002540215.html and http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-george-vujnovich-20120501,0,992343.story Irish Melkite ( talk) 10:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Which is it, then? -- Joy [shallot] ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
USAF Colonel John Capello and me were researching Halyard Operation for more than six years in the United States, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Operation Halyard was conducted by the 15th Air Force Air Crew Rescue Unit 1, OSS and Chetniks. Partisans were not involved in this particular operation (separate Air Crew Rescue Unit was attached to Partisans). Please keep daily politics, nationalistic and communistic propaganda away from this subject. Thank you. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 20:17, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Peacemaker67! Controversy section of the Halyard Op page is unsourced, in conflict with reliable sources and contain major factual errors. Claim "Mihalović assisted the US airborne evac of about 250 from Chetnik territory in Aug 1944" is a factual error - according to Tomasevich, Ford, Leary and Freeman Mihailović assisted the US airborne evacuation Halyard from July till December. Claim "This simply meant that the Chetniks allowed the Americans to use their airstrip for the evacuation – scarcely a particularly heroic action" is also a factual error - according to Ford, Leary, Freeman there was no airstrip to be used for mass evacuation so US mission jointly with the Chetniks, 300 local Serbs (with sixty ox carts) had to clear meadow and level the terrain in order to create suitable airstrip. According to same reliable sources Serbian farmers and Chetniks fed and sheltered crash landed airmen and provided medical treatment of wounded/injured etc. Claim "Mihailovic’s Chetniks rescued German airmen and handed them over safely to the German armed forces – were he so inclined, Schroeder could follow Washington’s example" is not supported by verifiable source. What is your view on that matter? Regards, D. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 15:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Peacemaker67, article you have posted above doesn`t exist on the HJS website. Are you implying that google docs are to be considered reliable source and suitable to contrast majority of reliable sources? I am not drawing implications. Factual conflict with majority of reliable sources (Ford, Leary, Matteson, Freeman and Tomasevich) is clear in terms of the assistance time span and degree of the assistance. According to this article Halyard Op was limited to August and Chetniks simply allowed OSS to use the airstrip. Claim of German airmen being rescued by Mihailovic`s forces is rather unique and not supported by other findings (Tomasevich, Ford, Matteson, Leary, Freeman). Controversy section doesn`t follow chronological order of the whole page - Legion of Merit was not given during the operation but in 1948. Regards, D. Daniel Sunter ( talk) 18:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Is for the main part word-for-word from Leary's Fueling the Fires of Resistance. As is the last paragraph of the section "Airlift from Pranjani to Bari". Needs rewriting. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 20:34, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
July 4, 2014. I just met a former POW from WWII who was one of those rescued by Operation Halyard. I was standing in line waiting to pay for my purchase at Vince's Produce in Linthicum, MD and noticed a gentleman wearing a WWII Veteran's hat with a B-24 pin attached. I thanked him for his service and we just started to talk. His daughter mentioned his capture and being POW in Yugoslavia and the fact that his name was the last name of those who were extracted. I'm sorry I didn't get his name and more info, but they did say he's in the book. What a great way, and memory, for me to have this happen today, on our Nation's celebration of our freedom!
Charlie C. MSgt Ret, USAF Vietnam 1969/1973 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.106.240.237 ( talk) 21:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)