WW2 USAF airmen MIA over Yugoslavia

[vvkj41]

Hello Alex/Allan,

Maybe my question wasn’t formulated properly. I collected some data from MACRs and IDPFs related to US airmen KIA/MIA over Yugoslavia during WW2 (1943-1945). After the war US commission visited Yugoslavia during 1947-1948 in attempt to investigate and collect bodies of US airmen KIA/MIA with known burial locations. They managed to collect some of them but not all of them.
So, I’m looking for the names (if such data exists) of those that are STILL buried on the territory of former Yugoslavia. They were overlooked by commission from one reason or another. Like Brewer/Coulson case.
Allan, it seems that those “A” was also MIA… Thanks.

Aleks

[Larry deZeng]

Aleks -

This will not help you very much, but many years ago, 30 to be exact, I spent two weeks at the U.S. National Archives in Washington researching the U.S. Army Graves Registration files looking for incidents where the Ustasa Vojnica and the Chetniks had captured and murdered American airmen who had baled out of their aircraft and come down in the former Yugoslavia.

These records as well as those of the U.S. Embassy Beograd and the U.S. Consulate Zagreb for the 1945-49 period have a huge amount of correspondence on your subject. If you cannot fly to Washington for a week, perhaps you can contact them through the NARA website.

Good luck!

L.