![]() ![]() They found themselves parachuting out of crippled planes and into the arms of Yugoslav villagers who, despite being surrounded by the Germans, risked their own lives to help the downed airmen in the fight against the Nazis. ![]() The airmen, eager to join the war and fight the Germans, took part in often-deadly trips from Italy to bomb German oil fields in Romania. EXCLUSIVE: Gulfstream Pictures has acquired feature film rights to the Gregory Freeman book The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II. Gulfstream partners Mike Karz and Bill Bindley will use it to tell a fact-based WWII escape tale. Based on declassified documents and exclusive interviews, the book tells a story kept secret more than 60 years, of the young American airmen shot down in the hills of Yugoslavia during bombing runs, their daring escape, and the secret agents who came to their rescue.
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