02181cam a2200373 i 4500 617399230 TxAuBib 20230126120000.0 091217s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007009950 9780451224958 0451224957 (OCoLC)489496807 TxAuBib rda Freeman, Gregory A. The Forgotten 500 : The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II / Gregory A. Freeman. Forgotten five hundred. NAL Caliber trade paperback edition. New York : NAL Caliber, 2008. xv, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally pubilshed in 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. We'll get them out -- Abandon ship! -- Counting parachutes -- Americanski? -- Long journey to somewhere -- Escaping Yugoslavia -- Passports, please -- Man of the year -- Abandoned ally -- Screw the British -- Goats' milk and hay bread -- An all-American team -- SOS ... waiting for rescue -- Sure to be a rough landing -- Red. Red. Red -- Going home shoeless -- Gales of the world -- Secrets and lies -- Epilogue -- Partial list of airmen rescued in Operation Halyard. In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.--From publisher description. 20230126. Operation Halyard, 1944. World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. Airmen United States Biography. Escapes Yugoslavia.