Training Mission

Slavic ground crews, attached with RAF’s No. 281 Wing, are trained on the intricacies of maintaining the Spitfire Mk V while based in Italy in the summer of 1944.

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By the time this training scene was recorded in Canne, Italy, in July 1944, Allied Yugoslavian airmen had several years of experience working side by side with the RAF. Following the dissolution of the Yugoslav Kingdom in April 1941, surviving members of the country’s air force migrated to British protectorates in the Middle East for service against the Axis. Training issues delayed their immediate service to the cause until well into late 1942, with their...

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