807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron's airplane crush
On November 8, 1943, a C-53 aircraft of the American Air Force, during a routine flight from Sicily to the Italian mainland to care for wounded soldiers, was forced into an emergency landing in a remote and dangerous area of Albanian mountains. On board, there were 13 nurses, 13 medics and 4 crew members.
"The unarmed Americans were trapped hundreds of blizzard-plagued miles from Allied lines, in a country torn apart by rival bands of pro- and anti-German guerrillas. Hunted by German soldiers, the castaways relied on what one survivor called their “savage will” to elude their enemy and find their way to freedom"1.
That incredible adventure is remembered today in one of the room of the impressive Bunk'Art 1 in Tirana (Rruga Fadil Deliu)
- Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (May 2025)
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