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Index
Accra
Acheson, Dean
ACRU (Air Crew Rescue Unit) (see also Operation Halyard)
Adriatic Sea
Afrika Korps
Air Transport Command
Aldis lamp
Alexander, King of Yugoslavia
American Communist Party
Anglo-American Club, Belgrade
Ascensión
Astra refinery, Romania
Aunt Jemima device
Austria
B-17 bombers
B-24 bombers
B-25 bombers
Ball turret gunners
Bari, Italy
Bay of Kotor
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Beano grenade
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Benigno, Sam (Banana Nose)
Bethlehem Shipyard, Baltimore
Bletchley Park
Blunt, Anthony
Bogdan
Bor, Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Brindisi, Italy
British
Eighth Army
General Service Intelligence (GSI)
MI6
Middle East Command
Operation Halyard and
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Brock, Ray
Brooks, Norman
Bucharest, Romania
Buckler
Budapest, Hungary
Bulgaria
Bunar, Yugoslavia
Burgess, Guy
C-47 cargo planes
in Operation Halyard rescue
Cairncross, John
Cairo, Egypt
California Citizen’s Committee to Commemorate General Draza Mihailovich
Cambridge Apostles
Cambridge Five
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town, South Africa
Carl, Sergeant
Casey Jones device
Catholicism
Chachak, Yugoslavia
Chamberlain, Neville
Chetniks (see also Mihailovich, Draza)
Child, Julia
Christian Science Monitor
Christi, Major
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Winston
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Columbia mission
Committee for the Fair Trial to General Mihailovich
Constanta, Romania
Corfu, Greece
Croatia
Dalmatian Alps
Danube River
Davidson, Basil
D-Day invasion
Deakin, Sir William
Denic, Branco
Derwinski, Edward J.
Dinaric Alps
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,”
Doolittle Raid
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
Eaker, Ira
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ernst, Morris L.
Farish, Lynn
Farm, the
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Felman, Richard
Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
Fighting Mudcat bomber
Fleming, Ian
Ford, Kirk, Jr.
Fort Benning, Georgia
Fotić, Konstantin
Geneva convention
Gestapo
Ghana
Goebbels, Joseph
Goebbels, Magda
Goldberg, Arthur
Goldwater, Barry
Gornji Milanovac, Yugoslavia
Greece
Grottaglie air force base, Italy
Ground loop
Halverson, Harry A.
Hayden, Sterling
Herzeg Novi, Yugoslavia
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Klugmann)
Hitler, Adolf
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hudson, Duane
Hungary
Istanbul, Turkey
Italy
Bari
Brindisi
Jagodina, Yugoslavia
Japan
Jerusalem
Jibilian, Arthur
Jibilian, Oksana
Jibilian, Sarkis
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jovanovich, Slobodan
JU-52 Junker planes
Kent, Chetnik commander
KGB
Kilpatrick, William J.
Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Klugmann, James
Knezevich, Zivan L.
Knox, Frank
Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
Kraigher, George
Kraljevo, Yugoslavia
Lalich, Nick
Landi
ng strip construction
Lapovo, Yugoslavia
Laredo, Texas
Lazic, Mirko
Lecce, Italy
Legion of Merit, awarded to Mihailovich
Liberia
Libyan Desert
Lovell, Stanley
Lovett, Tom P.
“L” pills
Lufthansa airlines
Luftwaffe
Maclean, Donald
Majestic (liner)
Marko, Kraljevich
Martin, David
Marxism Today
Mato, Paul F.
Mayer, Israel “Bronx”
McKool, Mike
Mediterranean Allied Air Force
Messerschmitt fighters
Mihailovich, Draza
Allies, relations with
anti-Nazi activities
arrest of
character of
clearing name
defense of, by rescued airmen
ethnic background of
execution of
hunt for
last words of
Legion of Merit awarded to
physical appearance of
on Time magazine cover
Tito and
trial of
U.S. airmen, protection of
in World War I
Mihailovich, Gordana
Milac, Ivan
Milankovic, Captain
Miljacka River
“Mission to Save Mihailovich”
Montenegro
Moslems
Mount Orjen
Mueller, Professor
Musgrove, Clare
Mussolini, Benito
Musulin, George
Natal
National Committee for Defense of Draza Mihailovich and the Serbian People
National Health Institute
National Movement
National Security Act of 1947
Negative information technique
New York Journal American
New York Times
New York World-Telegram
Nigeria
Nis, Yugoslavia
Norden bombsight
Normandy
North Africa
North, John Ringling
Norton, Lawrence
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Obilich, Milosh
Ogalen, Yugoslavia
Oliver, Thomas
Operation Halyard
August 9th night rescue
August 10th daylight rescue
landing strip construction
last flight of
order of evacuation
OSS agents dropped into Yugoslavia
planning for
Operation Halyard (continued)
press accounts
secrecy surrounding
supplies shipped by
team chosen for
thwarted attempts
total number of airmen rescued by
veterans of
Operation Mihailovich
Operation Punishment
Operation Tidal Wave
Orsini, Angiolina
Orsini, Tony
Orthodox Church
OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance (Ford)
OSS (Office of Strategic Services)
captured agents
Columbia mission
devices and methodologies of
disbanding of
establishment of
Operation Halyard and
purpose of
recruitment for
weapons and training
Ostro Romano refinery, Romania
P-38 Lightning fighters
P-51 Mustang fighters
Palestine
Pan American World Airways
Pancho Villa Expedition
Partisans
Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia
Pearl Harbor
Peter II, King of Yugoslavia
Petrovich, Nick
Philby, Kim
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ploesti oil fields, Romania
Poland
Popovich, Eli
Pranjane, Yugoslavia
Pritchett, Leonard “Tex”
Purlia, Koka
Purlia, Vasa
Radar
Radio equipment
Rajacich, Mike
Ravna Gora, Yugoslavia
Reagan, Ronald
Reed, Philip
Risan, Yugoslavia
Romana Americana oil refinery, Romania
Romania
Ploesti oil fields in
Rommel, Erwin (the Desert Fox)
Roosevelt, Quentin
Sabotage
Salapa, George
Salvoldi, Jumping Joe
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Sava River
Secret Intelligence Service
Serb/Croat conflict
Serbian-American community
Serbian National Federation
Shepherd Field, Texas
Shore, Dinah
Simic, Stanoje
Simović, Dušan
Sofia, Bulgaria
Soviet Union
Spanish Civil War
Sperry Corporation
Stalin, Joseph
State, U.S. Department of
Stefanovic, Miodrag
Stuka dive bombers
Sudan
Svilengrad, Bulgaria
Switzerland
Syria
Taurus Express
Tehran Conference of 1943,
Thibadeau, John
Thurmond, Strom
Time magazine
Titanic (liner)
Tito, Josip Broz
Tokyo, Japan
Tolstoy, Ilya
Transylvanian Alps
Trinity College, Cambridge
Tripartite Pact of 1941
Truman, Harry
Turkey
Twining, Nathan
Ukraine
University of Belgrade
U.S. Fifteenth Air Force
U.S. 29th Infantry Division
U.S. 42nd Divisionh Regiment of
U.S. 60th Troop Carrier Command
U.S. 69th New York Volunteers
U.S. 449th Bomb Grouph Squadron of
U.S. 459th Bomb Group
Ustashe
Vasić, Dragisă
Vichy French
Vidovdan holiday
Vujnovich, George
background of
in Belgrade
in Cairo
escape from Yugoslavia
in Istanbul
marriage to Mirjana
meeting and courtship of Mirjana
Operation Halyard and
with OSS
postwar career of
supplies sent by
Vujnovich, Mary
Vujnovich, Mirjana Lazic
in Belgrade
in Cairo
escape from Yugoslavia
in Istanbul
marriage to George
meeting and courtship by George
Vujnovich, Peter
Vujnovich, Xenia
Walpusk, Carl J.
War, U.S. Department of
Washington Post
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, Robert
World War I,
Wuchinich, George
Young Bosnia
Young Communist League
Yugoslav Army of the Homeland
Yugoslav Communist Party
Yugoslavia (see also Mihailovich, Draza)
bombing of Belgrade
civil war
German invasion of
Tripartite Pact of 1941 and
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