World War II Vet Honored for Saving 512 Airmen.

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Photo Collection from Arthur 'Jibby' Jibilian - Operation Halyard, WWII

Back in the 1970's and early 1980's, the US State Dept quashed every attempt to make The Halyard Mission public "for fear of offending Tito". Then when Tito died, it was "the country is fragile right now and the other ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia object to it".

Then by the late 1980's, there were lobbyists for the other ethnic minorities (Croat, Muslims, Albanians) who had power and money to get this story buried, and by the 1990's, Serbs were "the enemy". Just think about how different things might have worked had ordinary Americans known about the Halyard Mission back in the 1980's before Serbs got demonized by the lobbyists!

"Kocevje: Tito's Bloodiest Crime" + "Patriarch German"- TiM GW Bulletin (2/27/91)

American Council for Kosovo - Violence Against Christian Serbs and Their Holy Places

Serbian allies
 
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Considering recent political events it is difficult to see how this award has maneuvered itself through the troubled waters of political correctness.

Remember the seven Ps!!

:salute:

Semper Fi!
 
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