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During both world wars, American volunteers served on the allied side before the US joined the war. During World War I, there were even a few Americans who volunteered to fly for the Imperial German Flying Corps. [4] The Lafayette Escadrille in the French Air Force, World War I; A number of American pilots flew with No. 32 Squadron RAF during ...
Yugoslav guerrillas (3 C, 4 P) U. Ustaše (3 C, 63 P) Y. Paramilitary organizations in the Yugoslav Wars (2 C, 22 P) Yugoslav Resistance ... Hadžiefendić Legion; K.
United States–Yugoslavia relations were the historical foreign relations of the United States with both Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1992). During the existence of the SFRY, relations oscillated from mutual ignorance, antagonism to close cooperation, and significant direct American ...
According to statistics compiled by the US Air Force Air Crew Rescue Unit, between 1 January and 15 October 1944, a total of 1,152 American airmen were airlifted from Yugoslavia, 795 with the assistance of the Yugoslav Partisans and 356 with the help of the Serbian Chetniks.
Yugoslav Partisans (7 C, 40 P) S. Slovene Partisans (17 P) Pages in category "Yugoslav guerrillas" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
He again parachuted into Chetnik territory, near the village of Pranjani, where there were several hundred American airmen rescued by Chetnik forces and hidden from the Germans. Musulin successfully commanded the airlift Operation Halyard , the rescue from the air of about 447 U.S. airmen from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, from 10 to 29 August 1944.
Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943) Undercover (1943), Yugoslav guerrilla movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia loosely based on the Chetnik resistance movement; In the mountains of Yugoslavia (1946), first post-war film to be filmed in Yugoslavia, a Soviet-Yugoslav coproduction; Daleko je sunce (1953), Yugoslav Partisans
Wendell Fertig – American civil engineer who organized and commanded an America-Filipino guerrilla army on the Japanese – occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Roger Hilsman – American who served in the Merrill's Marauders and then with the Office of Strategic Services as a guerrilla leader in the China Burma India Theater of ...