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Re: Croatian Blenheims
1502 took off at 10.40 for a probe flight from Zemun. Pilot Zdenko Gorjup was beaten and disabled by second pilot Djordje Djuričković and technicians-factory controllers Jožef Žuran and Vladimir Uzelac. Somewhere over Aegean Djuričković got lost in thick clouds and Gorjup pleaded them to let him take the controls and try to reach Turkey, which they did. They landed near Ankara.
1506 was prepared for a training flight by instructor Salih Islamović, Milan Delić and Dragutin Sokol at Rajlovac airfield. At 9.50 it taxied to the initial point where Islamović asked Sokol to get out in order to enable Delić to make solo flight. As he got out Leo Korošec went in. They took off at 9.55 and force-landed at Mugla near Izmir.
One of the Croatian Blenheims was the ex-Yugoslav B-5 long-nose version, similar to British Mk.IV.
One Blenheim Mk.I was used in post-war Yugoslav AF.
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