Beyond the Call (45 page)

Paris
273
–
5

Picarelli, Sergeant
131
,
140
–
1
,
149
,
152
,
171

Poland
11
,
63
–
6
,
70
,
73
,
76
,
96
,
119
,
199
,
236
–
8
,
265

Polish

Army
64

political prisoners
64

provisional government
79

Poltava air base, Ukraine
2
,
15
,
22
,
59
–
60
,
62
,
67
,
69
,
77
,
81
,
95
,
101
,
113
,
130
,
163
,
180
,
183
,
192
,
198
,
239
,
243
,
253
–
7
,
269
–
72

Poznań, Poland
155
,
157
–
8

Praga, Poland
164

prison camps
71
,
80
,
214

prisoners of war (POWs)

Allied, liberated
1
,
63
,
65
,
73
,
74
,
78
–
81
,
84
,
89
,
92
,
95
,
99
,
100
–
04
,
118
–
22
,
130
,
156
,
158
,
161
–
7
,
183
,
188
–
9
,
191
–
3
,
202
,
204

collecting points
164
–
5
,
197

contact teams
73
,
80
,
198
,
200
,
243
–
4

evacuation of
1
,
100
–
04
,
124
–
5
,
164
,
167

Russian
2
,
72
,
197
,
200
,
202
,
207
,
318

women and children
122
–
5

Red Army
64
,
65
,
71
,
75
,
81
,
87
,
105
,
175
,
189
,
196
,
207
,
220
,
254

liberators
91
,
155
,
188

Red Army Air Force command
61

Red Army Air Force intelligence
142

Red Cross
64
,
87
,
166
,
202

refugee camp
155
,
157

refugees
120
,
125
,
213
,
223
–
4

rehabilitation centres
see
holding camps

Ritchie, Brigadier General
269
–
72

Roklikov, Lieutenant
131
–
4
,
140
,
258
,
312
,
313

Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
2
,
8
,
65
–
6
,
74
,
199
,
253

Rostov, Russia
56
–
7

Russia
27

Russian

atrocities
57
,
93
–
4
,
126
,
147
–
8
,
188
–
9
,
191
,
207
–
11

distrust of Americans
83

hospitality
174
–
5

soldiers
107
,
146
–
8
,
187

attitude to POWs
1
,
72
,
99
,
183
,
202

treatment of POWs
9
,
162
–
7
,
179
–
82
,
184
–
5
,
188
–
9
,
195
,
197
–
9
,
201

sabotaging Americans
135
,
160
–
2
,
178

stealing US aircraft
145
–
8
,
256
,
312
–
13

Rzeszów, Poland
110
,
113
,
117
,
126
,
132
,
140
,
171

salvage of American aircraft
63
,
74
,
81
–
2
,
130
,
139
–
41
,
143
–
6
,
149
–
54
,
171
,
193
,
256

Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)
218
–
19

see also
forced labor

Shenderoff, Captain Morris
242
,
249
–
52
,
257
,
321

shuttle bombing
61
–
2

Skytrain, C-47
41
,
50
,
67
,
130
,
132
–
4
,
140
,
149
,
160
,
237
,
269
,
272

Slavin, Lieutenant General Nikolai V.
245

Smith, Jack
241
,
320

Smolensk, Russia
64

Spaatz, General Carl
15
,
271
,
273
–
5
,
324

SS
86
–
7
,
120
–
1
,
214
,
220

Stalag III-C
91
,
155
,
188
,
195
,
308

Stalag VIII-B
120

Stalag XX-A
91
,
308

Stalin, Marshal Josef
1
,
8
,
61
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
72
,
74
,
76
,
165
,
198
,
200
,
265
,
321

Staszów, Poland
109
–
10
,
112
–
13
,
117
,
127
,
139
,
148
,
171

Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur
132

Tehran, Iran
51
–
5
,
194

Tillman, Lieutenant Arnold A.
106
–
8
,
110
–
13
,
127
–
8
,
312

Trimble, Carol Ann
18
,
115
,
277

Trimble, Eleanor
3
,
18
,
24
–
7
,
46
–
50
,
108
,
116
,
206
,
277
–
80
,
284
–
5

Trimble, Robert
3
,
17
,
117
–
18
,
129
–
30
,
142
–
8
,
179
–
86
,
203
–
9
,
215
–
18
,
239
–
41
,
261
–
7

arrival at Poltava
67

arrival in USSR
55
–
6

Auschwitz
86
–
9
,
109

bombing missions
4
,
17
–
19

CO of Eastern Command
245
–
52
,
255
–
7
,
263
–
7
,
269
–
72
,
324
–
5

Croix de Guerre
8
,
289
–
90
,
325

departure from Poland
236
–
8

discovery of bodies on rail track
207
–
11

Distinguished Flying Cross
8
,
115
,
127

first mission
98
–
100
,
102
–
4

flying POWs disguised as US airmen
193
–
4
,
241

flying salvaged B-17
153
–
4
,
171
–
4

French refugees train escape
231
–
8

infected tooth
43
–
4

journey to Ukraine
41
–
2

mistaken for Joe
36
–
7

money
95
–
6
,
228

offered aircraft salvage mission
21
–
6

official mission
74

passport
38
,
42
,
70
,
74
,
102
,
217
,
304

POW rescue
98
–
104
,
119
–
22
,
124
–
5

proposed promotion to Major
271
–
3

pulling gun on Russian Colonel
151
–
2

return to Pennsylvania
275
–
85

US Embassy, London
35
–
40

Washington
281
–
3

witnessing Russian atrocity
93
–
4

US Embassy, Moscow
261
–
7

US Embassy, UK
29
,
35
–
40

US flights grounded, Poltava
239
,
255
–
7

US Strategic and Tactical Air Forces in Europe (USSTAF)
15
,
61
,
82
,
127

US–Russian relations
63

US–Russian tension
243
–
5

Vergolina, Sergeant Rudolph
187
–
92
,
194
,
316

Vlasov, Colonel
160
,
164
–
7
,
197
–
9

war, end of in Europe
260
–
1

Warsaw, Poland
92
,
158
,
189

Wilmeth, Lieutenant Colonel James D.
79
,
101
,
126
–
7
,
130
,
158
–
67
,
181
,
183
,
191
,
195
–
9
,
201
,
239
,
240
,
257
–
8
,
310
,
322

Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
30
,
33

Yalta agreement
74
,
79
,
113
,
165
,
198