On 30 September 1915, troops of the Serbian Army observed three enemy aircraft approaching Kragujevac. Soldiers shot at them with shotguns and machine-guns but failed to prevent them from dropping 45 bombs over the city, hitting military installations, the railway station and many other, mostly civilian, targets in the city. During the bombing raid, private Radoje Ljutovac fired his cannon at the enemy aircraft and successfully shot one down. It crashed in the city and both pilots died from their injuries. The cannon Ljutovac used was not designed as an anti-aircraft gun, it was a slightly modified Turkish cannon captured during the First Balkan War in 1912. This was the first occasion in military history that a military aircraft was shot down with ground-to-air fire. COUNT 5
QSN1 When did Serbian troops notice enemy aircraft approaching Kragujevac?  ANS1 30 September 1915 QSN2 How many bombs did the three aircraft drop on the city? ANS2 45 QSN3 Which private shot down one aircraft with a cannon? ANS3 Radoje Ljutovac QSN4 What happened to the pilots that were in the aircraft shot down? ANS4 both pilots died QSN5 Which war was the cannon used in prior to this event? ANS5 First Balkan War in 1912