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According to the ethnic composition of Partisans, most were Croats 73,327 or 60.40%, followed by Serbs 34,753 or 28.64%, Muslims 3,316 or 2.75%, Jews 284 or 0.25% and Slovenes, Montenegrins and others with 9,671 or 7.96%, (number of Partisans and ethnic composition does not include 9 brigades which were engaged outside of Croatia).
Durante toda a guerra, de acordo com os registros dos beneficiários de pensões partidárias de 1977, a composição étnica dos partidários era de 53,0% sérvia, 18,6% croata, 9,2% eslovena, 5,5% montenegrina, 3,5% muçulmana bósnia e 2,7% macedônio.
Supreme Headquarters (Yugoslav Partisans) Tito (far right) and members of the Supreme Headquarters in front of the Tito's cave [ sr] in Drvar on 14 May 1944, days before Operation Rösselsprung.
- Formation of The Division
- Operations
- Strength and National Composition of The Division
- Legacy
- References
Development of the Partisan resistance in Yugoslavia during 1942 was such that it became impossible to manage brigades, battalions, and partisan detachments in a previous way, so in the autumn of the same year, the Yugoslav Partisan Army was formed. In the army, the first divisions and corps were formed, which were easily mobile, maneuverable units...
First operations
After the establishment, the units of the 6th Lika Division took part in the joint actions of the 1st Bosnian and the 1st Croatian Corps in the valleys of the Sana and Una rivers at the end of November 1942. The 1st and 2nd Lika Brigades, in cooperation with two brigades of the 7th Banija Division, took part in the attack on the Croatian Home Guard garrison in Dvor na Uni from November 26 to 29, but they failed because of an intervention of stronger enemy forces from Kostajnica. During that t...
Case White
During the first phase of Case White, units of the 6th Lika Division and the Lika Partisan Detachment fought hard in the heavy snow and severe cold and slowed the advance of Italian divisions - the 12th Infantry Division Sassari and the 13th Infantry Division Re, which tried to penetrate the liberated territory of Lika and further towards Bosanski Petrovac with Ustaše and Chetnik forces. The 6th Lika Division in cooperation with the units of 8th Kordun Division managed to carry out a successf...
Operations in Lika and Dalmatia
At the end of May 1943, the 2nd Lika Brigade was sent to Knin, where it fought against Italian, Chetnik and Ustaše forces until the beginning of September 1943, capturing several places, including Kijevo on July 26 and Vrlika on August 5. During that time, the 1st and 3rd Lika Brigades fought in the area of Ličko Polje and Gacko Polje. In July 1943, by the order of the Main Staff of the National Liberation Army and the Partisan Detachments of Croatia, the Blue Adriatic partisan company was pl...
The strength of the 6th Lika Division between its formation in November 1942 and October 1944[b] ranged from around 3,000 to around 4,500 soldiers. According to the report of the Division Headquarters made on 19 December 1942, a month after the formation and ten days after the return of the division units to Lika, the division had a total of 4,230 ...
The 6th Lika Division was considered one of the most combative divisions of Yugoslav Partisans. On 19 March 1944, it was declared to be a proletarian division via decree of Supreme Headquarters, it was also named after scientist Nikola Tesla who was from Lika. All three brigades, which were part of the division when it was formed, were declared pro...
Bibliography
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Partisan, member of a guerrilla force led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia during World War II against the Axis powers, their Yugoslav collaborators, and a rival resistance force, the royalist Chetniks. Germany and Italy occupied Yugoslavia in April 1941, but it was not until Germany invaded.
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The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
16 de ago. de 2023 · Yugoslav Partisans: 1942. Josip Broz Tito gives a speech in front of the fighters of the First Proletarian Brigade. (Source: Znaci.org) Their effectiveness and adaptability on the battlefield led them to be recognized by the Allies as the primary liberation movement in Yugoslavia by 1943.
