Authors: Lee Trimble
Picarelli, Sergeant
131
,
140
â
1
,
149
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152
,
171
Poland
11
,
63
â
6
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70
,
73
,
76
,
96
,
119
,
199
,
236
â
8
,
265
Polish
Army
64
political prisoners
64
provisional government
79
Poltava air base, Ukraine
2
,
15
,
22
,
59
â
60
,
62
,
67
,
69
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77
,
81
,
95
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101
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113
,
130
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163
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180
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183
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192
,
198
,
239
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243
,
253
â
7
,
269
â
72
Praga, Poland
164
prisoners of war (POWs)
Allied, liberated
1
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63
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65
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73
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74
,
78
â
81
,
84
,
89
,
92
,
95
,
99
,
100
â
04
,
118
â
22
,
130
,
156
,
158
,
161
â
7
,
183
,
188
â
9
,
191
â
3
,
202
,
204
contact teams
73
,
80
,
198
,
200
,
243
â
4
evacuation of
1
,
100
â
04
,
124
â
5
,
164
,
167
Russian
2
,
72
,
197
,
200
,
202
,
207
,
318
Red Army
64
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65
,
71
,
75
,
81
,
87
,
105
,
175
,
189
,
196
,
207
,
220
,
254
Red Army Air Force command
61
Red Army Air Force intelligence
142
rehabilitation centres
see
holding camps
Ritchie, Brigadier General
269
â
72
Roklikov, Lieutenant
131
â
4
,
140
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258
,
312
,
313
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
2
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8
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65
â
6
,
74
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199
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253
Russia
27
Russian
atrocities
57
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93
â
4
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126
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147
â
8
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188
â
9
,
191
,
207
â
11
distrust of Americans
83
attitude to POWs
1
,
72
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99
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183
,
202
treatment of POWs
9
,
162
â
7
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179
â
82
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184
â
5
,
188
â
9
,
195
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197
â
9
,
201
sabotaging Americans
135
,
160
â
2
,
178
stealing US aircraft
145
â
8
,
256
,
312
â
13
Rzeszów, Poland
110
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113
,
117
,
126
,
132
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140
,
171
salvage of American aircraft
63
,
74
,
81
â
2
,
130
,
139
â
41
,
143
â
6
,
149
â
54
,
171
,
193
,
256
Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)
218
â
19
see also
forced labor
Shenderoff, Captain Morris
242
,
249
â
52
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257
,
321
Skytrain, C-47
41
,
50
,
67
,
130
,
132
â
4
,
140
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149
,
160
,
237
,
269
,
272
Slavin, Lieutenant General Nikolai V.
245
Smolensk, Russia
64
Spaatz, General Carl
15
,
271
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273
â
5
,
324
Stalag III-C
91
,
155
,
188
,
195
,
308
Stalag VIII-B
120
Stalin, Marshal Josef
1
,
8
,
61
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
72
,
74
,
76
,
165
,
198
,
200
,
265
,
321
Staszów, Poland
109
â
10
,
112
â
13
,
117
,
127
,
139
,
148
,
171
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur
132
Tillman, Lieutenant Arnold A.
106
â
8
,
110
â
13
,
127
â
8
,
312
Trimble, Eleanor
3
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18
,
24
â
7
,
46
â
50
,
108
,
116
,
206
,
277
â
80
,
284
â
5
Trimble, Robert
3
,
17
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117
â
18
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129
â
30
,
142
â
8
,
179
â
86
,
203
â
9
,
215
â
18
,
239
â
41
,
261
â
7
arrival at Poltava
67
CO of Eastern Command
245
â
52
,
255
â
7
,
263
â
7
,
269
â
72
,
324
â
5
discovery of bodies on rail track
207
â
11
Distinguished Flying Cross
8
,
115
,
127
flying POWs disguised as US airmen
193
â
4
,
241
flying salvaged B-17
153
â
4
,
171
â
4
French refugees train escape
231
â
8
offered aircraft salvage mission
21
â
6
official mission
74
passport
38
,
42
,
70
,
74
,
102
,
217
,
304
POW rescue
98
â
104
,
119
â
22
,
124
â
5
proposed promotion to Major
271
â
3
pulling gun on Russian Colonel
151
â
2
return to Pennsylvania
275
â
85
witnessing Russian atrocity
93
â
4
US flights grounded, Poltava
239
,
255
â
7
US Strategic and Tactical Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF)
15
,
61
,
82
,
127
USâRussian relations
63
Vergolina, Sergeant Rudolph
187
â
92
,
194
,
316
Vlasov, Colonel
160
,
164
â
7
,
197
â
9
Wilmeth, Lieutenant Colonel James D.
79
,
101
,
126
â
7
,
130
,
158
â
67
,
181
,
183
,
191
,
195
â
9
,
201
,
239
,
240
,
257
â
8
,
310
,
322