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Re: Partisan attacks on airfields
When you come upon Velika Gorica and Pleso in documents from the time, those are not the same airfields. There were four major air bases in Zagreb area: Borongaj, Pleso, Kurilovec and Velika Gorica. The last three mentioned were connected and you could get from one to the other through Kurilovec, but they were considered different airfields. And there were many Partisan attacks outside so-called Independent Croat State as well.
On 18/19 July 1941 rebels destroyed five booty aircraft collected at Topola airfield near Jagodina in Serbia. On 29 February 1944 a platoon of 2. južnomoravski odred (South Morava Detachment) set on fire eight Gustavs which force-landed at Ravne auxiliary airfield a week earlier. On 25 May 1944 11. srpska brigada (Serbian Brigade) stormed Leskovac airfield and reported destruction of seven aircraft.
In Slovenia, on 7 July 1943 2. odred of Cankarjeva brigada (2. Detachment of "Ivan Cankar" Brigade) attacked Cerklje and reported that one plane was set on fire and four more damaged. Slovenian Partisans were active even out of Slovenia, Briško-Beneški odred (Briška-Beneška Detachment) storming Campo di Fortuna Belvedere near Udine on 13 March 1944 and reporting destruction of nine aircraft.
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