Other Forces

Yugoslav Spitfire

Spitfire V of Yugoslav Air Force, in Italy, perhaps at Canne. The former RAF Yugoslav Spitfires were assigned at two specific RAF Squadrons, No 351 (Y) and No 352 (Y), with Yugoslav pilots and personnel, embedded in Balkan Air Force and operational from 17 August 1944. At the end of the war in Europe, Yugoslav aircraft undertook 3,500 combat sorties and accumulated 5,500 hours operational flying. The red star in a white and blue roundel prefigure the future Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Air Force (in serbo-croatian Jugoslovensko Ratno Vazduhoplovstvo or JRV) born on 5 January 1945. The JRV was the air force of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia) disbanded after the war in Balkans of 1991-1995. Victor Sierra