Robert Alexander
Robert Alexander served in the European Theater of World War II, where he was a member of the Army Air Corp 459th Bomb Group.
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While on a mission to drop bombs in Vienna in January of 1945 Alexander’s plane was damaged.
He crashed in Yugoslavia, in the state of Bosnia, which was German held at that time. Muslim rebels within Yugoslavia hid Alexander and other Allied servicemen, moving them slowly from small town to small town.
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The group was taken from Sanski Most to Jajce, and then on to Sinj, Croatia. After weeks of evading capture behind enemy lines Alexander and twenty-eight other Allied soldiers reached Split, Croatia, and the Adriatic Sea where they were put on a British landing craft ship and taken to Italy.
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An oral history from Robert Alexander is available at the Nodaway County Historical Society's research center.