The Forgotten 500

Gregory A Freeman Gregory A. Freeman First published 2007

About this book

Now in paperback the amazing James Bradley - New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers - never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War.In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.

Subjects

  • aerial military operations
  • airmen
  • air pilots, biography
  • american
  • american aerial operations
  • biography
  • escapes
  • history
  • history / military / world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • operation halyard, 1944
  • rettung
  • search and rescue operations
  • united states, biography
  • us-soldat
  • weltkrieg
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american
  • world war, 1939-1945, yugoslavia