Foreign News: For Country

In a south Italian town last week TIME Correspondent Will Lang talked with Partisans from Yugoslavia, cabled some of their stories:

The Bomb and the Road. A handsome Serb major of 27 was a sergeant pilot in the Air Force when the Germans came, in April 1941. He saved his aged Potez biplane by taking off during a strafing by 25 Messerschmitts and flying to his home in Kraljevo. Ten days later, when the armistice was announced, he joined the new Partisan movement, became the leader of 200 men. His band grew to...

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