Operation Alfa

Operation Alfa
Operation Alfa
Part of the Yugoslav Front of World War II
Date October 5 – October 10, 1942
Location Prozor, occupied Yugoslavia
Result Capture of Prozor
Belligerents
 Italy
Chetniks Flag.svg Chetniks
 Independent State of Croatia		 Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Yugoslav partisans
Strength
9,000 soldiers

Operation Alfa was an Italian-Chetnik military operation carried out in the Prozor region.[1] Prozor was located within the Italian third occupation zone in the Independent State of Croatia.

The operation began on October 5, 1942 and by October 8 the town of Prozor had been retaken from the 10th Herzegovina Brigade of the Yugoslav Partisans.[1] The operation ended on October 10 when the Partisan line broke and the Italians came into contact with Croatian Home Guard troops.[1]

Chetnik troops killed 638 local Croats and Bosnian Muslims during the operation, to which the Italian forces did not intervene.[2] A survivor of the massacre later testified at the Trial of Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović.[3]

Axis order of battle

 Italy

  • Italian VI Corps (4000 soldiers)
    • 94th Infantry Rgt./18 Infantry Division Messina
    • XXIX Bn./4th Bersaglieri Rgt.

Chetniks Flag.svg Chetniks

  • Trebinje Corps
  • Nevesinje Corps
  • Romanija Corps

 Independent State of Croatia (at operation conclusion)

  • elements of 7th Infantry Rgt.
  • elements of 15th Infantry Rgt.

References

  1. ^ a b c Operation ALFA
  2. ^ Anti-Partisan Operations in Croatia: Operation "Alfa" (1942-10-05)
  3. ^ Second World War (1941-1945)


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