Word: potez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bomb and the Road. A handsome Serb major of 27 was a sergeant pilot in the Air Force when the Germans came, in April 1941. He saved his aged Potez biplane by taking off during a strafing by 25 Messerschmitts and flying to his home in Kraljevo. Ten days later, when the armistice was announced, he joined the new Partisan movement, became the leader of 200 men. His band grew to 1,500. They once attacked a German motor column by rolling an airplane bomb fitted with dynamite blocks and lighted fuses down a mountainside. The bomb blew...
...Force. A 31-year-old captain operated against the Germans with the only warplane the Partisans then had. On his first mission, he was told to bomb a German column crossing the Sava near Jasenovac. As his Potez approached, the enemy unfurled their flag for identification, not believing that the Partisans had any planes. The Captain dropped his bomb, killed 15 Germans, then leaned over to hurl 15 hand grenades. The Germans decided to take no more chances, afterward opened fire on, every Potez biplane they saw. On three successive days they brought down Potezes, all manned by Germans...