Tragedy in Yugoslavia

28/08/2025 4 min
Tragedy in Yugoslavia

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Episode Synopsis

The war was supposed to be over. August 1946 was meant to be a summer of recovery, not another season of graves. But peace is rarely clean, and the world that emerged after World War II was fragile, fractured, and full of sharp edges. In one of those forgotten yet telling moments, five American airmen were killed when their unarmed transport plane was shot down over Yugoslavia. Their deaths signaled that even as the guns of Hitler’s war fell silent, new conflicts were already beginning.