- Mostar Operation
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Mostar Operation Part of the Yugoslav Front of World War II Date February 6-15, 1945 Location Herzegovina Result Partisan victory Belligerents Yugoslav Partisans Nazi Germany
Independent State of CroatiaCommanders and leaders Petar Drapšin Georg Reinicke The Mostar Operation was a series of Yugoslav Partisan military operations in Herzegovina from February 6-15, 1945.
Most of central Herzegovina was part of the District of Hum in the Independent State of Croatia. Mostar was also home to an air field of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia.
Partisans took Široki Brijeg on February 6. They took Mostar without resistance on February 14. Upon entering the city, the Partisans took seven Franciscans, including the head of the Franciscan Province Leo Petrović, from the Church of Saint Peter and Paul and executed them.[1] Their bodies were subsequently dumped into the Neretva river.
Contents
Order of battle
Axis
369th (Croat) Infantry Division
9th Croatian Mountain Division
Nevesinje Chetnik Corps
See also
- Partisan cemetery in Mostar
External links
References
Yugoslav Front Overview Participants People 1941:
1942:
1943:
- Battle of the Neretva (Fourth Offensive)
- Battle of the Sutjeska (Fifth Offensive)
1944:
- Sixth Offensive
- Raid on Drvar (Seventh Offensive)
- Operation Halyard
- Belgrade Offensive
- Kosovo Operation
1945:
- Syrmian Front
- Battle on Lijevča field
- Bar massacre
- Battle of Poljana
Macedonia:
Strategic bombing:
Partisans
People's Liberation Army of Macedonia (Partisan faction in Macedonia)
Soviet Union (limited involvement, 1944-45)
Bulgaria (limited involvement, 1944-45)
National Liberation Movement (limited involvement, 1944-45)
Royal Yugoslav Army (limited involvement, 1941)- Chetniks (nominally Allied, lost official Allied support in 1943)
- Germany
Italy (1941-43)
Albania (1941-44)
Hungary (1941-44)
Bulgaria (1941-44)- Independent State of Croatia (NDH)
- Croatian Armed Forces (HOS)
- Ustaše Militia (including the Black Legion)
- Croatian Home Guard
- Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia
- Croatian Air Force Legion
Serbia under German occupation
- Serbian State Guard
- Serbian Volunteer Corps
Pećanac Chetniks- Russian Corps
Slovene Axis supporters
- White Guards
- Slovenian Home Guard
- Legion of Death
- Upper Carniola Home Guard
- Slovene National Security Force
Montenegro
- Lovćen Brigade (Zelenaši movement, 1942-44)
- Montenegrin People's Army (former members of the Chetnik movement, 1945)
- Josip Broz Tito
- Milovan Đilas
- Aleksandar Ranković
- Kosta Nađ
- Peko Dapčević
- Koča Popović
- Petar Drapšin
- Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo
- Arso Jovanović
- Sava Kovačević †
- Ivan Gošnjak
- Draža Mihailović
- Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
- Dobroslav Jevđević
- Maximilian von Weichs
- Alexander Löhr
- Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
- Mario Roatta
- Ante Pavelić
- Dido Kvaternik
- Milan Nedić
- Kosta Pećanac
- Sekule Drljević
- Leon Rupnik
Categories:- Battles and operations of World War II
- Military operations of World War II involving Germany
- Mostar
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