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George Vujnovich .age. 96.intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission

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George Vujnovich .age. 96.intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission

Posted: 7 May 2012 7:15PM GMT
Classification: Death
Surnames: Vujnovich,


George Vujnovich .
NEW YORK (AP) - George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He was 96.
Vujnovich is credited with leading the so-called Halyard Mission in what was then Yugoslavia. It was the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war.
A long retired salesman of aircraft parts, he died April 24 of natural causes at home in Queens,
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