The Balkan Air Force was a late-World War II Allied air formation under the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces that operated mainly in Yugoslavia, supporting the Partisans against Germany, but also to the Greek and Albanian resistance. It was a multinational unit, operated from 7 June 1944 - 15 July 1945, under the command of British Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshals William Elliot and George Mills.
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