Royal Yugoslav Air Force
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The Royal Yugoslav Air Force, was the aerial warfare service component of the Royal Yugoslav Army. It was formed in 1918 and existed until 1941 and the Invasion of Yugoslavia during World War II.
In 1931, the air force obtained three Hawker Fury fighters for evaluation.
In March 1941 the sole production Aeroput MMS-3 commenced service with the 603rd Auxiliary Squadron of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force as a liaison aircraft.
Personnel of the No. 2 Yugoslav Floatplane Squadron arming a Dornier Do 22 floatplane before an anti-submarine patrol in Aboukir, February 1942
Monument to pilots who died defending Belgrade in the air battle against Luftwaffe in April 1941.
German bombing of Belgrade
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Operation Retribution or Operation Punishment was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed
Bomb-damaged buildings in Belgrade in April 1941
The bomb-damaged Old Palace in central Belgrade, struck during the first wave of bombing on 6 April 1941
A 2008 photograph of the ruins of the old National Library of Serbia, bombed on 6 April 1941