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Croatian Aces of World War 2

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Osprey Publishing, Oct 18, 2002 - History - 96 pages
Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.50s, the Croat forces suffered heavy losses during 1942 whilst flying alongside JG 52 in the southern sector of the Russian front. Despite this, a significant number of kills fell to future aces such as Cvitan Galic and Mato Dubovak during this time, and when the units re-equipped with Bf 109G-10s in 1943, battle-seasoned Croat pilots started to rack up impressive scores. This book reveals how, by 1944, Croat air groups were defending Yugoslavia from British and American air raids, and in the final months of the war a handful of surviving pilots fought on until final defeat in May 1945.
  

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Contents

CONTENTS
6
CHAPTER THREE
43
CHAPTER FIVE
59
CHAPTER
74
APPENDICES
88
Copyright

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Croatian Aces of World War 2
Croatian Aces of World War 2
Boris Ciglic
Limited preview - 2013

Common terms and phrases

ACES OF WORLD Air Force Airacobra aircraft airfield Albin Starc April Armavir attacked August Avdic Bartulovic Black bombers Borongaj Boskic claimed confirmed crash-landed crashed Croat Croat pilots Croatian Air Cvitan Galic damaged days later destroyed Dragutin Eastern Front escorting Eskadrila Feldwebel fighter pilot flew flown flying Franjo Dzal Freie Jagd Gazapi German Gustavs Hauptmann Ivan joined the ZNDH Josip Helebrant July Kertch klase Kranjc Kres LaGG LaGG-3s Lasta Leutnant Ljudevit Bencetic Lucko Luftwaffe Mariupol Martinko Mato Culinovic Mato Dukovac Mihelcic Mostar narednik Novak November NOVJ Novorossiysk Oberfahnrich Oberfeldwebel Oberleutnant Oberstleutnant October Ostric porucnik Rata returned to Croatia score September shot sorties Soviet fighters Spitfire Squadron Stabsfeldwebel Staffel Stjepan Martinasevic Stjepan Radic Stormovik Tomislav Kauzlaric Tuapse unconfirmed kills unconfirmed victories unit unit's Unteroffizier Ustasa Veca Mikovic Vladimir Ferencina VVKJ whilst Wk-Nr Yugoslav Yugoslavia Zagreb Zemun Zlatko Stipcic ZNDH Zrakoplovna

References from web pages

Jan J. Safarik: Air Aces Home Page
Ciglic, B. - Slavic, D.: Croatian Aces of World War 2, Aircraft of the Aces 49, Osprey Aerospace, London 2002. Cony, Christophe: Les Fiat G.50 Croates, ...
aces.safarikovi.org/ victories/ croatia-ww2.html

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Jan J. Safarik: Air Aces Home Page
Ciglic, B. - Slavic, D.: Croatian Aces of World War 2, Aircraft of the Aces 49, Osprey Aerospace, London 2002. Gleize, J.-P.: Aces, ...
aces.safarikovi.org/ victories/ victories-yugoslavia-1937-1945.html

About the author (2002)

Boris Ciglic is a member of the Yugoslav Historical Research Group attached to the Yugolsav Air Force Museum in Belgrade. He has spent many years detailing the history of the Croatian Air Groups, and has unearthed some terrific material. Dragan Slavic has been an associate of the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum since 1978 and has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Croatian Air Force. In addition to more than sixty articles published in numerous Yugoslav aviation magazines, he has also assisted prominent aviation historians, contributing to books such as 'Horrido', 'Aeronautica Italiana nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale' and 'April 1941'. This is his first book for Osprey.

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TitleCroatian Aces of World War 2
Volume 49 of Aircraft of the Aces
AuthorsDragan Savic, Boris Ciglic
Illustrated byJohn Weal
Editionillustrated
PublisherOsprey Publishing, 2002
ISBN1841764353, 9781841764351
Length96 pages
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History / Military / Aviation
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