Emil (Milan) Uzelac was born on the 26th of August 1867 at Komorn (Hungary) but his home was in Svarca in Croatia where his father was a small farmer...
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After the wars end Generalmajor Uzelac who was Croat and orthodox Christian by birth settled down in Petrinja (Peterwardein) and became a General in the newly formed Yugoslavian air force. One of his first responsibilities was to translate all the Austro-Hungarian instructions and technical manuals regarding aviation into the Serbian language and to buy new airplanes for the new royal air force mainly in France. When Croatia became during World War 2 an independent state General Uzelac naturally became the commander of this air force too. [...]
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