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Originally Posted by kaki3152
From "Messerschmit Bf109: The Yugoslav Story" Boris Ciglic -"Maj Horace Hanes baled out of his flaming P-38G-10, 42-13370 wounded in the head, seconds before it struck the ground near Bednja in northern Croatia...passed on to the Partisans...He returned to his unit on 20 March 1044."
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From the same book, same page, few lines below
"After claiming a Bf 109 destroyed and two others damaged, 2/Lt Raymond J. Meredith was shot down himself. He crash-landed near Kupirovo village, some 20 km west-southwest of Drvar, got picked up by the Partisans and returned to his unit by 26 January, becoming the second USAAF airman to evade capture and return from Yugoslavia (the first was 2/Lt Richard Chapman of the 57th FG)."
Boris