Re: Captured Ju 52
The whole story about capture of that airplane were described in detail in post-war yugoslav literature, and even that plane were photographed during the war with partisan and regular Yugoslav Air Force marking. It is the first real transport plane in "Eskadrila za vezu Vrhovnog staba NOVJ" (Liaison escadrille of People Liberation Army of Yugoslavia Headquaters), and flew a lot of hours in the rest of war and after that. The second Ju-52 in flying condition Yugoslav Air Force got when in 2nd April 1945. one of that aircraft landed at Nin near Zara (today Zadar in Croatia). The crew consisted from 4 Luftwaffe airmen imprisoned in Tulln near Wiena and 4 USAF airmen. They had stollen that Ju-52 from nearby Langenlebarn airfield.
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