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1 posted on 08/11/2014 3:06:37 PM PDT by Ravnagora

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2 posted on 08/11/2014 3:08:27 PM PDT by Ravnagora

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZg7P8-rUAY

3 posted on 08/11/2014 3:49:17 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)

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One bit of trivia about Operation Halyard: It involved the heaviest documented American paratrooper to have jumped during WWII. Lt. George Musulin had been a football player at the University of Pittsburgh and professionally in St. Louis and Chicago before joining the OSS.

At around 250 lbs. he was the heaviest soldier parachuted by American forces during the war:

4 posted on 08/11/2014 3:59:42 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqNyMcBDTaA

5 posted on 08/11/2014 4:08:54 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)

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More info is trickling out.

A new chapter available in e-book format from Amazon: Red Tails: The Tuskegee Airmen and Operation Halyard: An All-New Update for The Forgotten500

The key qestion remains: Why? Why the story of the largest rescue operation behind enemy lines was suppressed for so long and still ignored?

8 posted on 08/12/2014 10:38:35 AM PDT by DTA

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