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1. Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailovic tried to fight a two fronted war against Communist Partisans and ...
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 09:32 AM
Mar 2021

... and Nazis. He raided Nazi supply trains for weapons, and he looked to the Allies for support. The Brittish backed Tito and the Partisans over him. The US backed him.

In 1945 Truman issued a medal to Mihailovic for rescuing over 500 American flier shot down in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia.



The Germans also offered a reward for his capture.

He's a complicated person, and he has been "rehabilitated" in Serbia.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEa_Mihailovi%C4%87

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