Divača, plaque for pilot Stanislav Vouk

Geslo: flyers across the border123

»Operation No. 2/Vis – 20. 10. 1944

The task was to attack a hated column with rockets on the road Slano-Rudine.

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A group of four Hurricanes, which took off at 14.40 from Visa, was led by the section commander, Lieutenant Stanislav Vouk. […] The report on this operation reads: '[…]

The pilots showed great sacrifice and bravery, attacking the targets four times under very intense and precise anti-aircraft fire. During the final attack, the formation leader, Lieutenant Stane Vouk, was shot down.'211)

Pilot and fighter Stanislav Vouk was born on 29 September 1922 in Divača. He began his career in the former Yugoslav Air Force in 1928. At the beginning of the war, Lieutenant Vouk served at the air centre in Bled. He was in German captivity from April to November 1941, then in Italian captivity until the surrender of Italy, when he joined the NOVJ. With a group of thirteen aircraft, he departed from Slovenia on 18 February 1944 across Ljubljana into Bosnia. By July 1944, he was serving at various airfields of the liberated territory. Towards the end of July 1944, he came through Bari into Bologna, where he became the commander of the Second Squadron, which made its first combat operation on 13 October 1944. By 20 October 1944, the squadron had carried out six combat operations, and Vouk participated as leader in five of them, which ominously shows how devoted he was and how heroic his spirit was. After his death, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and was awarded the Order of the Partisan Star of the Second Degree.212)«

(Rafael Perhauc, Flyers across the border, Library of NOV and POS 25-VI, Nova Gorica: Soča, 1968, p. 216, 217)

The memorial plaque was placed on 21 May 1983 by the flyers, across the border - fighters of NOVJ and the Association of NOVJ Fighters of Divača.

The name Stanislav VOUK is also inscribed on the façade of the memorial in the park of Divača.

The memorial plaque is placed on the façade of the current library. Previously, this was the Home of Divača. It was built by the locals with voluntary / assault / work and they were proud of it.

The NOB memorials and commemorative monuments are considered to have been erected by the locals near the buildings they had built themselves. This was a cultural and recreational centre where people gathered the most.

So stands the central memorial in the small park, opposite the Home of Divača the clinic, the school..

Memorial heritage, ZB for values of NOB Divača /no_think