AIRFORCE ORGANIZATION, DISPOSITION AND PERSONNEL

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• Publication Date: October 13, 1948
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Airfokce Organization, Disposition
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The Yugoslav Army!. Air Force is organized quite separately and independen
except that it does not yet constitute a separate ministry, but only 9
command rithin the Ministry of National Defense.
2. The Air Force Commend commands and
oneretes along two lines:
(a) From the operational point of view, comnanding operational urine,
This includes; organization; formation; training of flight and
other personnel; instruction and advanced training of flight and
'service personnel; tactical and strategic use of units in peace
and war; drill; political education (the aim of which is advaneed
instruction in Communist doctrine).
(b) From the administrative point of view, to which belong the tasks
of supplying technical equipment and subsistence stores, arfield
management, ground service in general, meteorological service, rgdio
service, photocraphic service, etc.
Omalaption from the Onerat one]. Ilo4nt of.View:
3. The Air Force as a whole is divided Into four divisions:
(a)
First Division fdivizijaj (Assault), with division headquarters
in Skoplje; equipped with Soviet Stormovik type planes. It own
organization consists of the following regiments:
(1) 421st Assault Regiment fpukj, with headquarters in
Ni a (Serbia). Airfields in the MedoSevac and Trupals
plains.
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(2) 422nd Asseelt-Regiment, with headeuerterr-? in Skoplje.
(3) 423rd Assanitiptegiment, with headouarters in Skoplje,
snd eith one seundrov (12 ples) ? attache to the Deeerro
Gumno eirfeld nenrehitolj.
(b) Second Division (Assault), eqrinped as the First; division head-
quarters in Zagreb? Consists ef the following reeinents:
(c)
(1) 553rd Assault Regiment - ?les? ("sgreb) airfield.
(2) 554th Assault Reeimert Lugko (Zagreb) airfield.
(3) 555th Assault Repinert Velika Gorica (Zagreb) airfield
Third Fighter Air Division: with headquarters In Ljubljana (14,011,
Renublic of Slovenia). 7qu1ppei with planes of the Soviet Yak-7.,
Yek-71 and Yak-9 types
(1) 112th Firhter ReFinert, with airfield nt Ljubljana, eItt,
one scuadron trereferr*6 to ?ula L Pola.:70
(2) 113th Fiehter Reeiment, located in Ljubljana, with one
squadron temporarily located in Skoplje. In addiion.
(lee or to netrdIs are attached to the Enribor airfield.
(d) Fourth somber Division, loceted at Sombor (Ba'Aka). It is eauinnee
with Soviet P-2 (Petleekov-2) lieht bombers. Its awn orger4eatien
consists of the following regiments:
(1_) 41st Bomber Realment, loeated in Sombor.
(2) 42nd Bomber Reeiment, located in Sonbor.
(3) 41rd Bomber Regiment, located in Sombor. One lquadrcn
pv,kadrilsj of this regiment hes been tr-rsflrred to
Skonlje, and is ettecLee' to the First Assault Divisien,
One squadron likewise is in Ljubljana. This shift of
squadrons takes place very frequently, depending on tAe
world Political situai,ion.
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Besides the oreviouely mentione( formations there sie other inde-
nondent unite, which are under the direct conmand of the Air Force
Command, as follows:
(2) 111th Reconnaissance Feeiment, with headquartenl ir Toetn-,
equipped wiUn old British Hurricane and Spitfire elanee.
-nfrorts are being mad( to form a division, with a strength
oP two reconneissance rce,iments, out of this regiment*
Barja Luka is exoected to serve as auxiliary aerfield.
(2) The Indenenhelt Transeort Reginent, loceted in Zeratm.
own organizetion comeste of three squadrons. It is len need
with the following planes:
5 Ju-52 German me-e) planes
8 Dourlal planes
20 LI-2 (Soviet-epee Dcuglas) elanes.
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(4)
The organization of another transport regiment is projected,
to be located in Novi Sadl where there is a militare
parachute school.
The commender of this (icJ trey:snort regiment 13
General Djordje Jovanovic, who is concurrentln in charue
of the civil air trans 'ort organization Jugoslovenski
Aerotransnort, which Is located at Pelgrede-Zemen. Thls
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transoortetion is more for military and Communist officiul
than for civilians.
(f) Military Air Acadomy. This term covers rilitary and aviation
for sneciCoiot oorsonnel nnd ncon actually constitutes a riftl,
division.
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(1)
'17e nilitery academn in Pane/eve prepares older An
Air Force cadets fro the youth accented from ten Tidi
elnsses. This school hns the task of theoretical 1T11-
,.on of the future plots, bomUardiers, and rsdiote1P-
,frs,thcrs, 7110 thon e oractical courso in tin, ':7ehl,E.E
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(2) Bomb.rdi(o School, with its own Jahnkr. si
(3) Tie a Mot School (the 7oka airfield near Petrovgno
non has a of.4o nane, ;renjanin). Thera are a number o'
nirls in this school, who teach in the Pilot School
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(4) The Vilitery P-reohnte School in Novi Sad. The Commaadt
of this school is Captain Miodrag Banjac, a ftvorite of
Larshal Tito. He is regarded no one of.the best riera=lhuT=I
oopn. This is a ran; behind which a Soviet parachute
officer-initruotor is concealed. From the staninoirt Or
instruction the Civil Psoachuts School in Vrgeo is unoto-
the cement-I of this school.
(5) l'he nrecialiots1 School in T%ajlovac near Sarao:evo,
telegranhaos and mefihanics are tauoht in this school,
ill the airfields described sliove are very well manaoed, enlarged; anl szo :i( d
with n11 equipment for flnine and other ooerationss netoorological stanjo
radio stations, teleoranh and telephone conmunications, lightine equipmono
including mobilo reflectors fon n4.pht flying: command posts, sinal eauiloent
concrete runways, rotor and rail comrunications with cities, enolood kw,tarr.
machine shols: Iraoehouses fer otore of gasoline and oil, tark trucks, o:.orty
of buildings for housing the various sections necossary for the connand ,11td.
mananement of an airfield.
5. The airfields are roll ouarded4 by units of KNOJ, the Militia,, and agents of
DDA. 'ntrance is strictly forbidden to civilians exceot vith snecial
authorization. In the daytime, and above all at night, the airfield itsolf
and its immediate vicinity are patrolled.
Plyther Oroosizotion of Lower 14nits from theoRmgtipnal Pointoof Vlerq;
Air regiments, consisting of 30 squadrons each, constitute the highest tsc
unit.
S uadrens are divided into oatrols and have four patrols each. ach putroi
/ patrols...2 has three or four planes. Accordinn17 each air squadron has 13
olanos at its disposal (12 to 16 planes it the laatrols and one for the comnne0,
o, A regiment has 41 planes, counting two :Aeries for regimental headquartern,.
9, The regiments arelmmilay combat units, and have no organs for supply within
their awn organization, as supply is under the jurisdiction of the territonic-'
commands.
-;ola squadron has four reserve olsnes; that is, each patrol has ono reserv
aircraft.
OrVIUAIIRn from th99S21921c?ILTATilirt9.rial Olatakintalaw
11, Yugoslavia as a whole is divided into four regional air. commands.
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12? To commandant of the torr4torial echelon . s Major General Amhrozic ilinko
,4 Ambrosio should probably be the surname_ t who actually serves as exv,eviv
officer of the ?1.ir F0fC00
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The ec',A2t?i cdnirtaAalA of i-,he Air i'oron is G.,)neraI Zdenko
1,4. The regionalFir corolaI-Ids are as ftLlms:
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tha f:,err.ks,ory of ..To-vodina qorthern So,rbia,
,;.irfiecCE are und.q- It4; ,aaltmerdt flovl, 3ad. So.lbor
jr:1L1C.Pr novin, Bcla Grkva, Zemun? and
Tle Gn,.,11 cOmmarA -(V0h.) headgliarters in 1r 1.
tLa imr.f.17.o:i7..- of Yaced,;h:(a arid central SerlJe,
i. S1o11:7e, Kr:." c, azd
propratioli)
TL: Third Eagional irClommend rommensi hadq-Aart,ar:7
ir4 C ccm:orises the territ,:yrv ofJo1i and Herceocvinc,.
1:ortenegro, find the .outthern nee't of Da-ANiatla, and tha,
followirr-%pjc.t rrderits c..,m.,land: :;loctar, Saraevo, an
Dutirr). LubrovJik4,
(d) Ther-- cvn r (UK) headquarters inh*Och
co:ipr.Las of C,reet. and Saovenia
C,orio&, Pleso, LuEko?Ce Brozec, BorovBaylje
Rijeka, ZeviAnik (near Zdra). S:fEt
The regional air cmTsfda have the followita autie3:
(a) Sc :i oranization. and maintenanco of siiota:=t
and Fli eqcinmnt for trem:
!ID) Saam-Av of tne airfiFlds on tilt, ground fror onerior.s fr-or
gryanfi A.na ''.7:1'Dr1 the air
-(c) Suotely of toohnical ard other here3sities%
(d) 3eTv or nibsistence rociniementr and olothinr, m'oPUes
(e) flaintenance aid operatim of meorological 5tations
(f) i:-",rrintrance or 1n o raio and mdiogoniomotrie
(g) !,1a*yateria::,_ce end openeqen of '..aoar statiors. So ftlr thce
-Lro radar s,,,3tions in 1-agooievia? one in ?annoy?, the other .1,11
.DI.J.h!:-o.nfLk, They ware piirchesed ocrenly Ir. America, throuaL the
agonc of tno well-knasA v.oIi fk Beiokovic and the iugo,a1A-
Embasy,
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regio.nai OCHr.,618 nre fror.. Cnc?-ooint of rim3.
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and of airfield neLTrI1.-_,y. ty
posting tho Enao ervices bcacT..i..1,
coToany,
Tie ,r...dinnriIldant of th! Falurt.d1,10Y, ls
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The Instructor of the Civil Parachute School, located at Vr6ac, is
Instructor Ivan Gorjup.
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The commandant of the Ljub"),jana airfield is Captain Kospic Djuro Lsueaaone
should probably he Kospic.j.
? ie Instructor of the Parachute Courses, which are held in cities and toe
io Instructor Stank? ,lajnik0
This course lasts three months. Training is theoratical and practical. Ite
peapose ia to interest the youth in Z parechuting_/, earecially the rural
a,7, much. as oossible. Graduates of this course later are called to spend tnelr
military service in the Military- Parachute School.
the vicinity of Krbko, at the village of Krska Vas, a secret airfield
.ie carved out of the forest. Sometimes the Russians also use it, and then
ty are guarded by troops from KNOJ and the Militia.
In the military airfields, which are located near the Italian, Auatrian
G:Peek frontiers and near the Dalmatian cost, there are always aircraft OAC:
patrol in strict readiness, and provided with the mcst secure pilots, so as
to be able to take off at a riven command in the shortest Possible time, to
prevent the flight of unknown enemy aircrtft, as the Communists call, all
Angio-American planes,
'They often fly for days in the vicinity, as well as along she frenaiers
t'aeoeelves and along the Adriatic Sea, looking for foreign planes, to prcv,n.
i:Loiation of the Yugoslav sky, j.o. to revent foreign planes which migha
eeer Yugoslavia from takinp aerial ohotogranhs of military objectives, and
eepecially from dropenr war materiel to the Chetniks, of whom they are very
ealch afraid.
Odors are in force, issued by the Air Force Command, to the effect that
neenes which attemot to fly over Yuroslavia, outside the Prescribed air 1 ne?
_Lr:_y be shot down at once.
Near Celje, at Petrovce, there is a secret air4 ieldj, Likewise there is one
near Trbovlje at the yilla?a of Petolinijava L siej Vas. These airfieles
ee been discovered because of the use of unfamiliar Yugoslav aircraft.
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