Supermarine Spitfire in the service of the National Liberation Movement
The first prototype of the most known British fighter plane Spitfire had maiden on 5th March 1936. Its designer, Reginald Mitchell died in 1937 and didn’t survive to see the total success of his creation. During twelve years, as the production of Spitfires lasted, there were built 20.134 Spitfires, and 2.444 similar version Seafires, in more than forty variants. The initial struggle Spitfire had early 1940, in clashes in the air over France, but Spitfire Mk I and Mk II, had the real combat baptism in the Battle of Britain, earning everlasting fame. Variant Mk V appeared in 1941. Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc Trop, ES257 X, 352 (Yugoslav) On 22 April 1944 British decision to help the Partisan movement under the command of Josip Broz Tito, in Libya, at the airport of Benin, in the context of the English Air Force (RAF), formed 352 Yugoslav squadrons ( the 1st squadron of the NOVJ). Squadron staff was made by Yugoslav pilots and mechanics, mostly former Air Force members o...