Thread: Identity of F-5 Lightning crashed on take off Vis Island -March/April 44
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Old 7th December 2014, 10:34
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Re: Identity of F-5 Lightning crashed on take off Vis Island -March/April 44
Hi kaki,

I stumbled upon this posting with a little bit of delay. In case you didn't find anything in the meantime, what I have on this is that an P-38 landed at newly-prepared landing grounds at Pliško Polje at Vis on 12 April 1944, bringing in the post from Bari. It was also the first Allied aircraft ever to have landed at Vis. As the plane took-off back to Bari, it burst into flame and crashed, falling on Partisans from the 2. platoon/1. brigade/26. Dalmatian division. Pilot and nine Partisans were killed, five Partisans were wounded.

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Boris

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