Virtual Reality Project

The public institution "Memorial Centre of the Homeland War Vukovar" has, since its inception, preserved the memory of the courageous members of the Independent Air Force Unit.

The most recent contribution to commemorative efforts is the virtual reality project “Independent Air Force Unit Osijek”. The project was devised within the public institution with expert assistance from members of the Unit and was implemented in collaboration with Culex Ltd of Osijek. It constitutes a unique virtual memorial created in honour of the Unit’s personnel, who, by their fearless flights, demonstrated humanitarian intent and resisted a substantially superior aggressor force at the moment it was most needed.

The remarkable story of the Independent Air Force Unit Osijek begins in the autumn of 1991, when the Unit’s founder, Colonel Marko Živković, proposed the deployment of available aircraft at that time, which comprised sporting and agricultural aeroplanes, for defensive operations. Little time elapsed between the initial reconnaissance flights by powered hang‑glider and aerial photography of enemy positions in early October, and the commencement of nocturnal humanitarian flights and combat operations. In an exceptionally short period, the Unit’s personnel transformed agricultural crop‑spraying aeroplanes into a squadron whose activities were twofold: on the one hand, they delivered humanitarian aid to the citizens of Vukovar in crates; on the other, they conducted combat operations against enemy positions using improvised explosive devices.

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