Borbena dejstva 6. lovackog puka

6. april 1941.

6th Fighter Group Activities in The April War

At the time of the German invasion on 6 April 1941, the JKRV - Royal Yugoslavian Air Force flew a wide assortment and rather unique combination of aircraft. They flew among others the bombers Blenheims, Do17Ks and S.79s. Among the fighter they flew both the Bf109s and Hurricanes. The Fighter Force also used obsolete Hawker Furies, which equipped the 5th (Fighter) Puk (approx. Wing).

On the morning of April 6th 1941. only eight IK-2 and six IK-3 were in flying condition. The 107. squadron, wholly equipped with IK-2s situated on Bosanski Aleksandrovac airfield near Banja Luka and 161. /162. squadrons each had three flyable IK-3 on Zemun/ Belgrade airport. On that, the first day of war IK-2s from 107. squadron patrolled over the Bosnia district, without the fighter action, but IK-3 squadrons, 161. /162. was on alert and each had three, two aircraft patrols at readiness. First patrol was lead by the Captain Todor Gogic, C.O. of the 161. squadron and his wingman Sgt. Milisav Semiz. Second patrol consisted of the 162nd. squadron C.O. Captain Sava Poljanec and Sgt. Dusan Vujicic. Third patrol consisted of 2nd.Lt. Dusan Borcic and Sgt.Eduard Banfic.