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EN of the AAF-including the hundreds
whose lives he saved, though they
M never knew his nan ic-e-owe a debt of
gratitude to an officer of the Corps of Engineers,ported.
whose death has
IIe was Lt. Col.
recently been re-
Linn x '- Farish.
who parachuted into the interior of Yugo
slavia for three different ninety-day periods
during thc last vc.ir to plot "escape maps"
and layout improvised airfields for Allied
.urmcu who had cracked up on Balkan mis
sions or been forced to hail out in enemy
territory.
In a~lditiou to the technical data he compiled.
Colonel Farish secured the cooperation
of \ l.rrsh.rl Tito and his Partisans in
rescuing flvcrx who had fallen into enemy
li.md«. or were hiding ont in the countrvside,
IIe person all v led several expeditions
to repatriate men who were hcing sheltered
by fricudlv Y UgOS]aI'S, hut whose injuries
prevented them from reaching a field from
which thcv could he flown out. On one occasion.
in' com pam' with I.t, F.li Popovitch
of Chicago. he made a fivcduv trip on horseback
to hring in a wounded f1ITr, crossing
cncrnv lines lurlf a dozen timcs during the
[ourncv. On au other, the two men saw a
B-24 f;llI in a mountain area, and spent two
wcck« tracking clown the survivors and mol"
ing them out in ox-carts.
Colonel Farish was killed in a plane crash
late in Sept em her, and it was only recently
that details of his work were taken out of
the "secret" file in wl iirh thcv had been acclm\lI1ating
since he bcg:m h:ick in Scptcrnbcr
194). Some idea of how he felt about
his job mal' he gathered from one of his reports
in which he wrote: "The United
States of America is mentioned in the same
breath with Cod in YugosLI\'ia." If it is. a
large part of the credit is oll'ing to such
officers as Colonel I,'arish.
A special effort is being *
out of the gU:lf(lhouse and
maclc
hack
to
on
get
the
men
job.
Ccncral .\rnold has ordered a rch.rbilitatiou
program for garrison prisoners-those confined
to hlse or post gU:lrdhouses-and one
big reason is that the fullest possible clutv
performance is needed from cvcrvbodv. The
program is uuclcrwav at 110 U. S. can.
t iucnt.il hases. under the supervision of the
Office of the .Vir I'rO\'ost :\larshal.
.\ prisoner who shOln proper spirit is
gil'en extra pril'ilcges-more freedom, less
gu:nding. pos-rblv different quarters. IIe is
gin'u refresher eOlIrSes and shown how to
keep out of trouble in the future. Special
training suited to his needs in certain militan'
occup.rt ions is gi"en and a record kept
of his progre'S. Special schooling is gil'en
those having little cdncurion. Se]f,gOlernmcnt
nuder