HALYARD MISSION RESCUES TRAPPED U.S. AIRMEN IN YUGOSLAVIA
Boljanić, German-Occupied Yugoslavia • December 27, 1944 On this date in December 1944 the last 20 U.S. airmen were extracted in a hazardous Balkan air rescue courtesy of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Operation Halyard (aka Halyard Mission) began nearly 5 months earlier on August 2, though it had been…