Good neighbourhood behaviour...

Hoping to honour EAF overall stylish attitude, I took the liberty of introducing EAF to our next fellow Allied pilots in the incoming AWI Gothic Line Campaign, the 102nd Yugoslav Squadron.

Their forum link: http://102nd.in.rs/distribution/index.php

My opening post:

"Hello, I’m one of the European Air Force member you will be flying with, in the AWI Gothic Line Campaign.

Sorry, but I only know very few “slovi po-srpski”! (I worked sometimes in Srpska Respublika Bosnia-Bosanski Brod).

I can speak a little Russian, so I can almost understand your posts in the Forum, though writing in Cyrillic with the multinational PC keyboard is a lot time-consuming!

It has been a pleasure meeting you lot in yesterday’s test, and I am sure we’ll have a great time together.

Maybe you don’t know yet that our EAF Italian-speaking Squadrons (132° Bomber Sq, 20° Escort Fighter Sq., 155° Interceptor Fighter Sq.) historically all belong to 51° Stormo (Wing), which after the end of Fascism in 1943, flew Spitfires, P39s, P47s, Macchi MC202 & 205 and Martin Baltimore Bombers over Yugoslavia, fighting Germans and supporting the Yugoslav Liberation Army. This had been organized by the Allies, mainly to avoid Italian vs. Italian dogfights over German-occupied Northern Italy (as it was sadly already happening on the ground!).

Further info about EAF here: http://www.europeanaf.org/indexn.html
Further info about EAF51 here: http://www.eaf51.org/

Do vizenja!

P.S. I fly in the RAF602 “City of Glasgow” EAF Squadron, just to emphasize EAF’s International attitude… "

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Good post TT

Well done :slight_smile:

Anyway there are some marginal mistakes… This is not to be offensive, but to be historically precise

132° Bomber Sq, 20° Escort Fighter Sq., 155° Interceptor Fighter Sq.) historically all belong to 51° Stormo (Wing), which after the end of Fascism in 1943, flew Spitfires, P39s, P47s, Macchi MC202 & 205 and Martin Baltimore Bombers over Yugoslavia,

132° Gruppo (Squadron) was belonging to ICAF Stormo Baltimora (Baltimore Wing), not to 51° Stormo.
51° Stormo never flew P39 (flown by 4° Stormo ICAF instead)
P47 were never flown by any Italian Squadron during WW2. They were flown by 51° Stormo only after the war.

Thanks Bear, I did not intend to be too precise, I just wanted to “lure” our new SE Mates towards a piece of History they were not aware of…:wink:

The Squadron Allocation has been posted

51 Stormo have Macchi 205 and SpitVc
4 Stormo P-39’s

All allocated to EAF51 with the possibility of Bostons at a later stage in the campaign.

I just wanted to “lure” our new SE Mates towards a piece of History they were not aware of…

And you did well. I am always in favour of good neighbours relationship :slight_smile: