[CTRL] Rescued American Airmen Defend Serbs

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

 -Caveat Lector-

The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU


Subject: Rescued American Airmen Defend Serbs

>
>An Open Letter To Our Troops In The Former Yugoslavia From Over 500 MlAs

>Saved By The Serbian People During WWII

>
>Richard L. Felman Major USAF (Ret) President National Committee of
>American Airmen Rescued by General Mlhailovich, Inc. P.O. Box 17478,
>                 Tuscon, Arizona 85731 Tel. (520) 885-7005
>
>During World War II, we were in the Army Air Corps list as "Missing in
>Action" in the very same area you are now serving. If we may, we would
like
>to relay to you a frank, soldier-to-soldier message about our personal
>experience while there - something which politicians who sent you there
have
>not told you and something which you have not read or seen in the
anti-Serb
>media.
>
>In 1944, the members of our committee were flying bombing missions out of
>Italy over Southern Europe. During that time over 500 of us were shot down
>over enemy-occupied Yugoslavia and saved from certain death by the Serbian
>people. Ours was the greatest rescue of American lives from behind enemy
>lines in history but has been kept under wraps all these years because of
>pressure from foreign sources.
>
>While we were there, those of us who were wounded were given whatever
>medical supplies they had even at the deprivation of their own troops.
>If there was
>tne piece of bread in the house, or one egg, it went to the American
>airmen while the Serb went hungry. If there was one bed or one blanket, it
>went to us while the Serb slept on the bare ground.  No risk of sacrifice
>was too great to insure our safety and well  being. One experience which
is
>forever seared in my memory is the time a village with 200 women and
>children
>was burned to the ground by the  Germans because the Serbs would not tell
>them where they were hiding us. To this day, I can smell the terrible
stench
>of their burning flesh. One does not forget such things.
>
>The most incredible part of our rescue was that before each mission, our
>bomber crews were briefed by the highest levels of American intelligence
>that if shot down over Yugoslavia, we were to stay away from the Serbian
people
>as they were collaborating with the Germans and "cutting off the ears of
>American airmen" before turning them over. Only after we were shot down
did
>we find out the amazing thoroughness with which the truth about the Serbs
>was being distorted.
>
>    Further compounding this deception is the fact that while the Serbs
were
>our allies in WWII, Croatians and Muslims (who we are favoring today) were
>allies of the Nazis, shooting at us and responsible for killing many of
our
>fellow American fliers. In view of the lies we were told about the Serbs
>during World War II, we could not help but wonder if our foreign policy
>there today is the same anti-Serb bias we encountered 52 years ago. Could
our
>career diplomats sacrifice former friends and reward former enemies in the
>name of political expediency???... Could it be because in the world
>community there are  over one billion Muslims and only 9 million Serbian
Orthodox
>Christians with the same proportionate power in the global economy???
Could
>it be because the Serbs have no oil wells and no unlimited oil money?
>
>   Could it be because the Croatians and Muslims outspend the Serbs 50 to
>one on lobbyists, media firms and campaign contributions??? ... Could
this be
>why, "atrocities" are manufactured to make the Serbs look bad while
gaining
>sympathy for their opponents???... Could this be why the Serbs are branded
>"aggressors" in land they have lived on for over 600 years???... Could our
>policy have something to do with the fact there are 540 members of
Congress,
>none of whom are Orthodox Chistians???... Could the State Departnent's
>bitter bias, against General Draza Mihailovich, the anti-Communist
guerrilla leader
>who saved us, be based on the fact he was a Serb???
>
>     Could these be the reasons the State Department has covered up the
>truth of our rescue all these years and opposed our petition to express
gratitude
>for saving over 500 American lives (a petition which is supported by the 8
>million veterans of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
>the Air Force Association and which has been approved by the United States
>Senate.)???... Could it be these are the reasons the Chairman of the House
>Foreign Affairs Committee has also denied our petition by saying to us
there
>are "ethnic groups in Yugoslavia" who oppose it???...
>
>    Are we mad???... You can bet your next month's paycheck that we are
mad!
>We did not leave our families, risk our lives and watch our buddies get
>their arms, legs and heads blown off so that "ethnic groups in Yugoslavia"
could
>tell us what we could or could not do in our own country.
>
>     Now that the spring thaw has set in, temperatures and tempers will
>start to rise in the volatile area you now find yourselves. All we ask is
that in
>your dealings with the local people you be made aware of the eyewitness
>experience of your fellow comrades-in-arms. By speaking out now we have
>nothing to gain except a burning moral passion to tell the truth, a sworn
>duty to protect our national honor, a patriotic     desire to express
heart
>felt gratitude to those on foreign soil who save American lives while they
>are fighting in defense of our glorious country.
>
>     Now that you have been sent to foreign soil and asked to risk your
>lives we feel you should know the truth and not be "suckered in" by the
rhetoric
>of highly paid public relations firms, foreign lobbyists and self-serving
>politicians who know absolutely nothing of the region's history.
>
>We might also add that had it not been for the Serbian people, Air Force
>General Donald J. Smith, our chairman and one our rescued airmen, would
not
>have survived the war and been able to dedicate 40 years of honorable
>service to his country.
>
>Had it not been for the Serbian people, technical Sgt. Curtis "Bud" Diles,
>another of our airmen, would not be alive today in Dayton, Ohio, enjoying
>retirement with his 4 children and 12 grandchildren... There are hundreds
of
>us with stories just like those.
>
>Some of the greatest testimony to the many sacrifices made on our behalf
is
>the many thousands of American children who are alive today solely because
>the Serbian people saved over 500 of their grandfathers during World War
II.
>Some of them could very well be serving with you today in Bosnia.
>
>(I was one of 3 rescued American airmen who returned last year to the
former
>Yugoslavia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of victory in Europe with
the
>people who saved us and to visit the cow pasture that served as a landing
>strip from which we were rescued. The most moving  experience of our
>sentimental trip was being cheered by over 50,000 Serbs who gathered at a
>mountain top to welcome us and who kept chanting "USA, USA").
>
>    As American military men, we have a proud tradition of "duty, honor
and
>country" to uphold and a fierce sense of loyalty to those with whom we
>fought side by side in combat. We never forget their kindness nor do we
return
>their battlefield sacrifices for us by bombing their women and children.
>
>    The Serbian people helped us when we were desperate and in trouble.
Now
>that the situation is reversed we can do no less.
>
>     Please keep these untarnished truths in mind as you now serve our
>country and all it stands for, and may God bless you all as we pray for
your
>safe return.

Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian

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