Rescued British airmen from Serbia during Halyard mission

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Originally Posted by Col Bruggy

May 7, 1944.

7/8 May 1944
No.40 Sqn.
Wellington X LN804 'T'
Op: Filiani (Filiasi?) Bridge.

A/c crippled by light flak on bombing run and crashed at Zagubica, Yugoslavia. F/O McKenna is buried in Sofia War Cemetery. The survivors met up with Yugoslav partisans and returned to Italy in August 1944.

W/O T R Bradshaw RCAF - Evaded
W/O N L Reid RCAF RCAF - Evaded
F/Sgt W Taylor - Evaded
P/O I B H McKenna - +
Sgt L R Somers - Evaded

Thank you for your help!

Bradshaw and Reid are also listed in messages, and they also gave statement some years ago, so they are rescued by chetniks. I didn't mention them since I know their case.
It is interesting that Taylor and Somers are not mentioned in messages, nor in Bradshaw and Reids statement, so it is possible they were rescued by partisans.