THE FILM
SYNOPSIS
Operation Halyard is one of the greatest rescue missions in American history. 512 Allied airmen, primarily B-17 and B-24 crew shot down during the 1944 bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Serbia-were rescued by a CLASSIFIED alliance between the OSS, the U.S. 15th Air Force, Serbian underground leader General Draza Mihailovic, Chetnik forces and Serbian villagers who risked their lives to hide the Americans from Nazi Death Squads.
Together, the Americans and Serbians built a hidden, torchlit dirt airstrip on a mountain so C-47's could extract the airmen, over six harrowing months. Mihailovic refused to leave on the last flight and was later captured, tried and executed by Tito forces, forever wrongly branded as a traitor.
THE FACTS
The Mission: Operation HALYARD
Is a 501.C Non-Profit documentary series that aims to not only produce the definitive true-life account of this amazing triumph, as told in recently declassified video interviews by the actual Airmen who accomplished it, but through the unrelenting activism of their fervent descendants, commission and install a permanent monument on the Mall in Washington, DC to honor the unjustly maligned Serbians without whom, none of 512 would have escaped the war alive.
SOURCES
Previously unpublished, declassified video interviews with all the key airmen and covert operatives of the mission:
•Art Jibilian
•George Musulin
•Nick Lalich
•George Vujnovich
•Crusading family members
•Historians
•Serbian Villagers
•Actual footage of the C47 rescue flights
THE IMPACT
This documentary series & Monument Effort is a 501.c non-profit entity, established to complete the mission these heroes died before achieving. We, along with their devoted families, will finish the job in their honor.
Our mission is not only to tell the stories but to create a movement that honors the past while inspiring hope for the future. We invite you to join us on this journey as we work to preserve the legacy of our heroes and celebrate their contributions to our shared history.