WW2 USAF airmen MIA over Yugoslavia

[Larry deZeng]

Originally Posted by researcher111

Larry

Just for own curiosity when and according to your research the Chetniks murdered US airmen coze from 1944 on under D.Mihalovic they were called saviours and their leader was even awarded a US presidential medal for saving more that 550 US airmen lives . If the Chetniks were split in more fractions under separate leaders then that would make more sense . If the event took place in 1943 with limited US air campaigns over Yugoslavia please advice.

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Alex K

This subject is so thoroughly discussed and well covered on Axis History Forum that it would be very tiresome and time-consuming to try and recapitulate it all here. I'll just say that the Chetniks rescued and protected downed Allied airmen during 1943-44 a good 95% of the time. However, there was a very independent group of Chetniks in Dalmatia that did not always see eye-to-eye with this policy. I found at least two cases of Chetniks in Dalmatia murdering Allied airmen in spring 1944. There were still numerous local witnesses there in 1945-47 who gave statements on these incidents. I also found several cases of Ustasa from the Obrana Zdrug (think Jasenovac) in the Sava Valley SE of Zagreb doing the same thing in fall 1944.

L.