A single-storey building at the Novi Sad airfield with its corrugated roof caved in along the whole range, the window openings blown out and the render stripped off in patches. The chimney is still standing, and a lattice radio aerial with its insulators survives on the flat roof at the right, a pale pennant hanging from the pole beside it. Churned earth and scattered debris fill the foreground. German bombers struck the field in April 1941, at the opening of the occupation.
About this place
Novi Sad's military airfield lay on the western edge of the city, on the flat ground at Sajlovo that later took the name Jugovićevo. The city ceded the land in 1912 at the request of the Austro-Hungarian general staff and the field opened with a flying meeting in May 1913, at first no more than grass strips and eleven wooden hangars, with brick hangars, workshops and barracks following in 1916. A Serbian squadron flew in from France in November 1918, and for the next two decades the field was the centre of military aviation in the new Yugoslav state, home of the first pilot school, of training schools for reserve officers, observers and mechanics, and of the air force command until it moved to Zemun in 1936; it was renamed in 1927 after the aviation officer Jovan Jugović. German bombers struck it in April 1941, the occupiers laid an 800 metre concrete runway, and after the war the field lost its purpose as the city grew over it, leaving Jugovićevo as the name of a residential district.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.26034, 19.79934
- Source
- Europeana /1090/MNMMUSEUM1700061
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum via Europeana
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 617 × 410 px
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