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USAAF Lightnings vs Soviet Yaks

7th November 1944: US planes attack a Red Army airfield in Yugoslavia - the 'Nis Incident' causes a diplomatic incident but is covered up

Nov 07, 2024
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Lockheed P-38J Lightnings in 1944.

On the 7th November the Soviet Army was advancing rapidly near the city of Nis, then in Yugoslavia, now part of Serbia. What happened next, and why, is the subject of a number of different and varying accounts. No doubt both sides tried to keep the matter as quiet as possible at the time, rather than hand a propaganda v…

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