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Re: Straffing on Fliegerhorst Agram and Pleso on 11. October 1944.
Laurent and Marko:
Very interesting thoughts and comments along with additional details. What came to my mind an hour or two ago was the possibility that the Mossies were after a VIP and his entourage. Borongaj (Agram-Stadt to the Germans) was the principal Croatian Air Force airfield in the Zagreb area, while Zagreb-Pleso was the gateway airfield at that time (Oct 44) for many of the evacuation transport flights between Athens, Salonika and Belgrade and north to Austria and Germany. Is it possible a German or Croatian message transmitted by radio was intercepted by the Allies to the effect that: (1) a high-ranking German general would be passing through Pleso at the time of the attack, or, (2) that Poglavnik would departing or arriving at Borongaj? If so, the Allies might have seen this as a prime opportunity to liquidate them. Just speculating, but it almost sounds from what we have so far that the Mosquitos were intentionally targeting transports or multi-engine aircraft that could be used as a transport.
L.
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