Photoalbum Bandenkampf Bosnien 1941-1944

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[jmark]

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The second photo in post #2 show Slavko Kvaternik, one of the founders of the Ustasha:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Kvaternik

Jason

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Great,, thanks, so this is : Slavko Kvaternik,

Didnt know.. Can anyone help me with a few villages or with the unit?


One village is Prijedor in bosnia..
another name is Mrakovica also in bosnia and the battle of Kozara in the mountains in 1942 ... http://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/d.../Kozaradenkmal
also one NAme is Dubica....

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[CVRC]

Photo No. 15. you have Town name Bosanski Samac.

Photos with non German soldiers, there are mixed Ustasha, Croatian Home Guard and Gendarms.

Civilian dead and alive are most likely Serbs.

At that time periode you have 704, 714, 717, 718 Inf Div. and 187 Res.Inf.Div in these areas.There were also other divisions and formations there.

Regards
Cvrc

[MJC]

I'm at work right now and don't have my books, but I believe February 1942 in AO Dubica is "Operation Prijedor" to relieve entrapped German and allied forces.

I'll check tonight.

Another nice score for you, Buckeru!

[MJC]

From AHF and Larry de Zeng:

Part of the Anti-Partisan Operations in Croatia series by H.L. deZeng IV

Dates: 18 – 27 February 1942. (1)

Objective: To destroy Partisan concentrations in the Bosanska Dubica – Prijedor area in West Bosnia.

Enemy Forces: 2d Krajiški (Border) NOP Detachment (3 battalions).

Axis Forces:
German
I and II Bn./Inf.Rgt. 738
I and II Bn./Inf.Rgt. 750
I Bn./Inf.Rgt. 724
718. Infanterie-Div. divisional support units
Croatian
Ustasha Obrana Battalion Jasenovac
One-half of a mountain artillery battery

Conduct of Operations and Results: Around mid-February, Partisan units attacked and isolated several companies of the German 923. Landesschützen-Btl. (923d Territorial Defense Bn.) near Prijedor in West Bosnia. German General Bader, commander in Serbia, ordered an immediate relief operation and a mainly German force was quickly assembled in the vicinity of Bosanska Dubica. The operation began on 18 February against stubborn resistance and the relief force did not reach the encircled Germans until 27 February. Casualties were relatively light, the Germans and Croatian losing 34 killed, 48 wounded and 15 missing. Partisan losses were 189 counted dead, 13 wounded and 16 captured, according to the Germans.

Footnotes
1. Aid, Matthew M. - The Croatian Armed Forced at War, 1941-1942, unpublished manuscript (Beloit (WI), 1976), p.17; ; Hehn, Paul N. - The German struggle Against Yugoslav Guerrillas in World War II, East European Monograph No. LVII (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1979), pp.94-95; [Vojnoistorijski institute] - Hronologija oslobodilačke borbe naroda jugoslavije 1941-1945 (Belgrade, 1964), p.211; [Vojnoistorijski institute] - Oslobodilački rat naroda Juooslavije 1941-1945, 2 Vols (Belgrade: 1965), p.232; NARA WashDC: RG 242 (T-501 roll 250/781-83, 794-96).

[SiPo]

Another interesting album you have come across. Many thanks for sharing.

[Buckeru]

WOW..... Thanks guys..

Here are really a lot of experts.. These information is really very interesting..
Great!

Do you find something about a operation in 1944?

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[Ludwig]

Very interesting photos!