George Vujnovich Dead: OSS Agent Who Led Daring World War II Rescue Of More Than 500 Dies

[Moonraker]

This incident was revisited in 2010 when Mr. Vujnovich received the U.S. Bronze Star Medal. The headline for that event would have surprised me, as it did many. What WWII 500 airmen rescued? However, it was chronicalled in at least the (audio)book on the OSS which I had just finished.

George Vujnovich Dead: OSS Agent Who Led Daring World War II Rescue Of More Than 500 Dies

NEW YORK — George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He was 96. Vujnovich is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. It was the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war............................

[mixiboi]

Thanks for posting this.