D-Day (part 1) - Žagubica
June 6th is best known as D-day - the Allied landing in Normandy. But it was also essential for the Halyard Mission. On this day, six...
Fateful Malfunction
On June 2nd, 1944, the 483rd Bomb Group was on its way to bomb targets in Romania. But before crossing the border between Yugoslavia and...
May 29th Evacuation from Pranjani
British military missions with the Yugoslav Army in Homeland (JVuO, Chetniks) were being withdrawn, not to return. Along with more than...
May 18: Mission to Ploiesti
Another busy day for more than 200 US heavy bombers that attacked Ploiesti. Enemy defenses were prepared, and 14 planes were lost, five...
May 6th, Three Planes
On May 6th, 1944, while returning from missions in Romania, three bombers crashed in Serbia. Liberator No 42-52307 crashed near Tutin,...
Big Noise from Kentucky
On May 5th, 1944, the 449 Bomb Group was attacking targets in Ploesti. While over the target, Liberator No 42-52149 "Big Noise from...
April 24. Mission to Bucharest
B-24 Liberator, 41-29199, named Big Boober Girl by her crew, on the photo with trailing smoke from a damaged engine en route to...
Bombing of Belgrade on Easter 1944.
On April 16-17, 1944 more than 360 Allied bombers attacked targets in Belgrade. Among them were railroad marshaling yards, the aircraft...
April 15, Liberator
Thornton Carlough, B-24 Liberator copilot, seen in this photo from November 1944, when he arrived back in the United States after...
Halyard Mission Airfields (4)
The Halyard rescue mission used three airfields for the evacuations, all of which have been discussed in earlier entries on our website....
