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Interesting facts and figures on the Balkans in March 1942

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  Dido Kvaternik, Jure Francetic, and Mladen Lorković on the bridge on the Drina in Zvornik after the operation. March - The battles for Eastern Bosnia is underway.   The battles for Eastern Bosnia in 1942 were complex political and armed struggles of stakeholders for supremacy in the territory of Eastern Bosnia waged during the first few months of 1942. Parade of members of the Serbian State Guard in front of the Assembly building 3. 3. - In Serbia, founded quisling Serbian State Guard. The Serbian State Guard (German: Serbische Staatsgarde, known as Nedićevci) was a quisling formation in occupied Serbia, founded on March 3, 1942. March 5 - The Executive Committee of the Comintern criticizes the tactics of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ("left turns"), e.g. the establishment of proletarian brigades. Deputy Warden of the Banjica camp, Djordje Kosmajac (center) with the Germans in occupied Belgrade. March 6 – Yugoslav Partisans, operating in Nazi-occupied Serbia, ...

Allied aid and recognition of the People's Liberation Army

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  Nikola Kečanin: "Long live the Red Army, the guarantee of our victory", 1944, The Allies had long supported the refugee government in London, so the struggle to recognize the People's Liberation Army and Yugoslav partisan detachments as the only force fighting the Axis Powers was of great importance. At a conference in Tehran in December 1943, the Allies recognized the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia as the only fighters against fascism in Yugoslavia and decided that the partisans should be supplied as much as possible with military material and commando operations. Allies near Daruvar parachute military equipment for the needs of the Tenth Corps, in the early spring of 1945   Although the NOV and POJ were recognized as a military force against fascism, AVNOJ's decisions caught the Western allies in an attempt to save the old order in Yugoslavia and bring back King Peter II and his refugee government after the war. As the Alli...

Military and paramilitary formations in the Balkans during World War II PART I

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The Flag of the Democratic Federation of Yugoslavia, used by the Partisans The National Liberation Army and the Partisan detachments  of Yugoslavia was the armed force of the anti-fascist movement of resistance in occupied Yugoslavia, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Yugoslav National Liberation Army, NOVJ), the full name of the National Liberation Army and Partisans of Yugoslavia (NOV and POJ), the shorter and more popular partisans. Yugoslav Partisans considered being the most successful movement of resistance in occupied Europe. Josip Broz Tito in Bihać, 1942. NOVJ was formed in June 1941 by the formation of the first Partisan detachment. March 1, 1945, has grown into the Yugoslav army, the regular military formation of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. The National Liberation Army was headed by the Supreme Staff, and its members were called Partisans. The Partizan strategy rejected the holding of the fronts. At the beginning of the war, the...