US soldiers, members of an OSS operational group, marching through Komiža on the island of Vis, passing by houses destroyed by German bombs, and the huge Partisan inscription "Long live Marshal Stalin". One of the biggest challenges faced by the young Americans (who were mostly of Yugoslav and Greek origin) outside combat, at the seaside under the hot sun, was certainly refraining from any (especially sexual) contact with Partisan women – about which former OSS member Andrew Mousalimas wrote: "There were many Partisan women in military dress. Tito had given the Partisan women a direct order if any of them even talked to an American or British soldier they would immediately be sent to the mainland for combat duty. Our officers relayed Tito's edict and we were very careful not to fraternize with the women. The Yugoslav women were young, healthy, and most of them very buxom. They were not flirtatious. Realizing the consequences the women would face, the Americans and British strictly obeyed Tito's order. Rumor has it that a few of our men had sex on the island during those long months. Of course a better rumor was running rampant that two or three older Greeks were servicing the gay, A. Neither rumor was ever corroborated. We could not wait to return to Italy for a little R&R."
Text: Ivan Ž.; Andrew Mousalimas.
Photographer: John Phillips.
Date: July 1944.
Location: Komiža (district of Hvar), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
Sources: John Phillips, Yugoslav Story, Jugoslovenska revija, Beograd, 1980, p. 65; ibid., p. 62–64; Andrew S. Mousalimas, "Greek-American Operational Group, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – Memoirs of World War 2", Preservation of American Hellenic History, 2004, pt 4.
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Američki vojnici, pripadnici jedne operativne grupe OSS-a, marširaju kroz Komižu na ostrvu Visu, prolazeći pored kuća razrušenih od nemačkih bombi, i ogromnog partizanskog natpisa "Živio maršal Staljin". Jedan od najvećih izazova za mlade Amerikance (koji su većinom bili jugoslovenskog i grčkog porekla) van borbe, na moru i vrelom suncu, bio je sigurno suzdržavanje od bilo kakvog (posebno polnog) opštenja sa partizankama – o čemu je pisao bivši pripadnik OSS-a Endrju Musalimas: "Bilo je mnogo partizanki u uniformi. Tito je partizankama dao direktno naređenje da će ukoliko budu samo razgovarale sa američkim ili britanskim vojnikom odmah biti poslate na kopno u borbu. Naši oficiri su preneli Titovu zapovest i mi smo dobro pazili da se ne zbližavamo sa ženama. Jugoslovenke su bile mlade, zdrave i većinom veoma jedre. Nisu bile koketne. Shvatajući posledice s kojima bi se žene suočile, Amerikanci i Britanci su se strogo pridržavali Titovog naređenja. Pričalo se da je nekolicina naših ljudi imala snošaj na ostrvu tokom tih dugih meseci. Naravno, još se više proširila bolja glasina, da su dva ili tri starija Grka opsluživala našeg homoseksualca, A. Nijedna glasina nikada nije potvrđena. Jedva smo čekali da se vratimo u Italiju na mali odmor i oporavak."
Tekst: Ivan Ž.; Endrju Musalimas.
Fotograf: Džon Filips.
Datum: jul 1944.
Mesto: Komiža (srez Hvarski), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvori: John Phillips, Yugoslav Story, Jugoslovenska revija, Beograd, 1980, str. 65; ibid., str. 62–64; Andrew S. Mousalimas, "Greek-American Operational Group, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – Memoirs of World War 2", Preservation of American Hellenic History, 2004, pogl. 4.
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