Office of the Historian

811.2367/16: Telegram

The Ambassador in Turkey (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Ankara, August 25, 1943—7 p.m.
[Received 8:43 p.m.]

1471. I have been informed today that Turkish Government has accepted validity of argument that the seven survivors of the crew of the Liberator which crashed off coast of southern Turkey be regarded as “shipwrecked mariners” (my 1388R, August 8) and has ordered their release.35

Please inform General Arnold.

Repeated to Cairo for General Breton [Brereton].36

Steinhardt
  1. In telegram No. 1596, September 21, 10 a.m., the Ambassador reported that the 15 aviators in question had been released by the Turkish Government (811.2367/19).↩
  2. Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, Commander, U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East (USAFIME).↩