HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Freeman, Gregory A.
Subjects
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.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Freeman, Gregory A.
by title:
The forgotten 500 : ...
MARC Display
The forgotten 500 : the untold story of the men who risked all for the greatest rescue mission of World War II / Gregory A. Freeman.
by
Freeman, Gregory A.
New York : Dutton Caliber, [2017]
Subjects
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.
ISBN:
9780451224958 (paperback)
0451224957 (paperback)
Description:
xv, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Requests:
0
Summary:
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.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hana P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
940.54219 Fr
Damaged
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.