DUŠAN SIMOVIĆ - PRILOZI ZA BIOGRAFIJU DO 1941.
DUŠAN SIMOVIĆ - SUPPLEMENTS TO HIS BIOGRAPHY PRIOR TO 1941

Summary/Abstract: Army general Dušan Simović was one of the most noted and best educated officers of the Serbian and Yugoslav army yet little was known of his brilliant military career prior to 1941. Already a promising young officer in the years preceding the Balkan wars and WW I, he held important commanding positions in these wars and received several of the highest national and foreign military honors. When armed hostilities ceased in 1918 and the new Yugoslav state was established, Dušan Simović was appointed to the most elevated positions, including that of delegate of the Royal Government and Supreme Command in the Government of the National Assembly of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, member of the Military Mission in Zagreb, participant in the forming of the 4th army region and adjutant to Regent Aleksandar Karađorđević. In the 1920’s, Simović was chief or assistant chief of staff in numerous army and division headquarters, trained in the French army, became second in command of the Air Force etc. Later he became second assistant to the general staff commander and commander of the Air Force. The highest point in Simović’s career was from September 1938 to January 1940, when he became commander of general staff. Prior to becoming president of the government following the coup d’etat on 27 March 1941, he was commander of the Air Force. Simović was one of the architects, organizers and main participants of the coup d’etat and Yugoslav Prime Minister until the middle of January 1942. He retired in January 1943 and returned to Belgrade in May 1945. He died in Belgrade in 1962.

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