Lika-Primorje operation
Lika-Primorje operation | |||||||
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Part of World War II in Yugoslavia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Yugoslav Partisans | Germany Independent State of Croatia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Petar Drapšin Pavle Jakšić Boško Šiljegović | Gustav Fehn | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
4th Army
| XV Mountain Corps
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Strength | |||||||
70,000 | 40,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
First phase: 5,616 killed, 6,949 wounded and 2,905 wounded[1] |
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World War II in Yugoslavia
1941
- Axis invasion
- Bombing of Belgrade
- Bombing of Sarajevo
Uprisings
- Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sanski Most
- Eastern Herzegovina
- Drvar uprising
- Rogatica
- Olovo
- Uprising in Croatia
- Srb uprising
- Uprising in Serbia
- Bela Crkva
- Loznica
- Banja Koviljača
- Šabac
- Kruševac
- Mačva
- Uzice
- Kraljevo
- Trešnjica
- Novi Pazar
- Mihailovic
- Sjenica
- Uprising in Montenegro
1942
- Dražgoše
- Southeast Croatia
- Hydra
- Prijedor
- Nanos
- Trio
- Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines
- Montenegro
- Kozara
- Partisan Long March
- Kupres
- Livno
- Alfa
- Kopaonik
- Bihać
1943
- Case White
- Greenwood–Rootham
- Otto
- Fungus
- Hoathley 1
- Case Black
- Typical
- Zvornik
- Davidson
- Grčarice
- Turjak Castle
- Maclean
- Višegrad
- Bombing of Podgorica
- Bombing of Zadar
- Delphin
- Rogers
- Kugelblitz
- Kočevje
1944
- Maibaum
- Bombing of Belgrade
- Dafoe
- Lindsay
- Rösselsprung
- Andrijevica
- Halyard
- Ožbalt
- Ratweek
- Serbia
- Belgrade
- Niš
- Stracin–Kumanovo
- Vukov Klanac
- Bregalnitsa–Strumica
- Kosovo
- Syrmian Front
- Floxo
- Niš airspace incident
- Batina
- Knin
1945
- Trnovo
- Mostar
- Bombing of Zagreb
- Spring Awakening
- Transdanubian Hills
- Lika-Primorje
- Nagykanizsa-Körmend
- Sarajevo
- Lijevče Field
- Trieste
- Zelengora
- Poljana
- Odžak
Lika-Primorje operation was a military operation carried out by the Yugoslav Partisan 4th Army against Wehrmacht units and the Croatian Armed Forces. It was conducted in the area of Lika and Western Bosnia from 20 March to 15 April 1945.
In the first phase, the 4th Army took eastern Lika and Bihać, and in the second it took Gospić, Perušić, Lički Osik and Otočac. After 7 April 1945, units of the 4th Army continued the movement towards Rijeka.
References
- ^ Colić 1988, p. 328.
- Colić, Mladenko (1988). Pregled operacija na jugoslovenskom ratištu 1941-1945. Belgrade: Vojnoistorijski institut.
See also
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