Military Air Bases and Airfields

Divulje
Coastal naval base. Captured by Partisans in September 1943. Home of Royal Yugoslav Navy seaplanes.

Glamocko Polje
Partisan held airfield in November 1943. Glamocko Polje (Glamoc Field), was located near the small town of Glamoc in South-Western Bosnia, close to the Bosnia-Croatia state border. In Glamocko Polje airfield in November 1943, one of the famous partisan heroes Ivo Lola Ribar was killed during a German air raid. He was supposed to fly to the Teheran conference leading a Yugoslav mission. His brother Jurica was KIA few days before, so their father Dr Ivan Ribar, at that time Head of the Partizan Parliament (AVNOJ), learned about the death of his two sons in a single day.

Gorica
Former Italian Air Force base, captured by Partisans in September 1943. Located in Slovenia, west of Ljubljana.

Lacarak
Home of 421 Assault Regt in December 1944 and May 1945. Lacarak is village near the left bank of Sava River, on the Belgrade-Zagreb railway, in Srem, Serbia, about 5 km western from Sremska Mitrovica and about 90 km from Belgrade.

Livno
The 1st Air Base of NOVJ was formed here 14 October 1943. It was later a training base. Livno is a small town in Western Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). One of the first partisan pilots Franjo Kluz (the second was Rudi Cajavec), took off from this airfield on his last combat mission. Kluz was killed by German AAA near Trogir, on September 1944, flying a Supermarine Spitfire (Kluz's first airplane, in 1942, was a Potez XXV). Rudi Cajavec was killed on 4 June 1942. After forced landing with a Breguet XIX, both Cajavec and his gunner Mihailo Jazbec, were captured by ustashas (quisling formation of Hitler's Satellite Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, abr. NDH)), who surrended them to the Germans who shot Cajavec and Jazbec immediately.

Lusca Palanka
Partisan occupied village in July 1942. Located in Bosnia. Used for bombing raids by single aircraft.

Magyarmecske
Northern Hungarian village. Home of 112 Ftr Regt and 422 Assault Regt April 1945. Location?

Medjuvodje
Partisan occupied village in May-June 1942. Located near Kozara, Bosnia. Used for bombing raids by single aircraft.

Mostar
Former Royal Yugoslav Air Force base. Used by the 'Independent Headquarters Escadrille' from April 1945. Located in Hercegovina.

Niksic
The Partisans captured some Luftwaffe aircraft here in August/September 1944. Located in Montenegro.

Novi Sad
Former Royal Yugoslav Air Force base. Home of 422 or 423 or 111 Regt in December 1944. This airfield may be at Cenej, a village near Novi Sad, where today there is a small airfield. It is not confimed that this was the location of the RYAF* base.

Pancevo
Used by October 1944 for training of aircrew. Home for some units of the 17th Air Army and 5th Air Army of the Soviet Air Force by October 1944. Location?

Prijedor
Partisan occupied town in May 1942. Located near Banja Luka, Bosnia. The aerodrome at Urije, near Prijedor, was the landing place for the first successful defection from the Croatian AF by Franjo Kluz and Rudi Cajavec. Used for bombing raids by single aircraft.

Prkos
Used by 351 & 352 Sqns April-June 1945. Located near the Yugoslav coast.

Rajlovac
Home of 421 Assault Regt 8 May 1945. Located north-west of Sarajevo, the Bosnia and Herzegovina capital.

Ruma
Home of 113 Ftr Regt in December 1944. A small town about 50 km west from Belgrade.

Skabrnje
During early 1945 home to 351 & 352 Sqns. Located near Zadar on the Dalmation Coast.

Veliki Radinci
Note correct spelling. Home of 112 Ftr Regt in December 1944. A village on Fruska Gora Mountain, Srem, between Ruma and Sremska Mitrovica. Veliki Radinci was a reserve airfield to Zemun airfield, the main base of air units defending Belgrade on April 6, 1941.

Vis Island
An island off the Adriatic coast. It was liberated by Partisans in August 1944. Home of the Escadrila zu Vezu (Headquarters Liaison Squadron). Later used by 351 and 352 Sqns between October 1944 and April 1945.

Zaluzani
Captured by Partisans September 1944. Home of the 'Squadron of the 5th Corps NOVJ'. Located near Banja Luka.

Zemun
Former Royal Yugoslav Air Force base. Used by October 1944 for training of aircrew. Located near Belgrade. Home of 422 or 423 or 111 Regts in December 1944. Yugoslav Assault Aviation Training Centre located here in December 1944.

Overseas Bases:

Bari, Italy
Used for Basic Air Training of 220 Yugoslav volunteers from January 1944. Located in Southern Italy.

Benina, Libya
Used by 351 Sqn July-Sept 1944 and 352 Sqn April 1944-May 1944 for fighter conversion and weapons training. Located near Benghazi in Libya.

Canne, Italy
Used by 352 Sqn August 1944-January 1945. Location?

Lete, Italy
Used by 352 Sqn May-August 1944. Location?

Table of numerical designations:

1. Air Base	Livno, Serbia
2. Air Base	?
3. Air Base	?
4. Air Base	?
5. Air Base	?
6. Air Base	?
7. Air Base	?
8. Air Base	?
9. Air Base	?

* The correct abreviation for RYAF (Royal Yugoslav Air Force) is KYAAF (Kingdom of Yugoslavia Army Air Force - in Serbian: Vazduhoplovstvo Vojske Kraljevine Jugoslavije).