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Training Mission

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

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