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Down in Greece

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Down in Greece

by Bill Drake

Merriam Press Military Monograph MM129

First Edition (May 2011)
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94 pages
13 photos

The author was a bombardier-navigator in the 68th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a National Guard Unit out of New Orleans, Louisiana, which had been called to active duty some years before. He was a “transfer” from the 310th Bombardment Group to fill a “need.” The 68th TRG was a small part of the overall effort of the Office of Strategic Services to effectively promote behind-the-lines resistance to the German war machine by local populations and guerrillas of any persuasion. He went down in Greece April 6, 1944, on his forty-first combat mission and spent the next six months as an “evadee” in Thrace and eastern Macedonia, Greece.

Contents

Prologue
Chapter 1: Bailing Out
Chapter 2: Walking Cross-Country
Chapter 3: Captured
Chapter 4: The English Mission
Chapter 5: Explanations
Chapter 6: Taking a “Drop”
Chapter 7: Attempts to Get Out of Greece
Chapter 8: Hazards of the “Andarte” Life
Chapter 9: Return to American Hands
Epilogue