AMERICAN HERO, RIP: "Harold Hayes, Survivor of Secret World War II Odyssey, Dies at 94 " NYTimes.com

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Harold Hayes, the last surviving member of a band of airborne American medics and nurses who crashed-landed in Nazi-occupied Albania in 1943 and survived German attacks, blizzards and horrific privations on a 600-mile trek to their rescue on the Adriatic coast, died on Sunday in Medford, Ore. He was 94.
His death, at a hospital,..."

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