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Mato Dukovac
Mato Dukovac (23 September 1918 – 6 June 1990) was the leading Croatian fighter ace of World War II, with 44 confirmed kills. He joined the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 and flew combat missions on the Eastern Front from October 1942 to February 1944. He defected to the Soviet Union on 20 September 1944, and was returned to Yugoslavia in November 1944. He worked as a flight instructor for the Yugoslav Air Force in Pančevo and Zadar before defecting to Italy in August 1945.
He left Italy in 1946 and became a captain in the Syrian Air Force. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he flew combat missions against Israel in an American T-6 Texan. Following the war, he emigrated to Canada and started a family there. He died in Toronto in 1990.
==Early life==
Mato Dukovac was born on 23 September 1918 in the Austro-Hungarian town of Surčin, near Zemun. He was an avid glider pilot during much of his early life. In 1937, he entered the 67th class of the Military Academy in Belgrade. He graduated from the Military Academy on 1 April 1940 with the rank of sub-lieutenant () and was selected for pilot training at 1. ''Pilotska škola'' in Zadar that October.
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