Capture of Olovo (1941)

Capture of Olovo
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia

Olovo in 1963
Date1 November — 17 December 1941
Location44°04′N 18°20′E / 44.07°N 18.34°E / 44.07; 18.34
Result

Chetnik-Partisan victory

  • Chetniks and Partisans captured Olovo
Belligerents
Independent State of Croatia Independent State of Croatia Chetniks
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisans
Commanders and leaders
  • Radovan Trivun[1]
Units involved
  • Independent State of Croatia Croatian Home Guard - 2 companies:
    • the 4th company of Sarajevo Reserve Battalion
    • the 17th company of the 6th Infantry Regiment
  • 180 Muslim militiamen
  • Independent State of Croatia 40 gendarmes
  • Independent State of Croatia a battery of mountain guns
  • 4 Chetnik companies

    • Democratic Federal Yugoslavia parts of Partisan Romanija Detachment
      • Knežina company
      • Bjelogoračka company
      • Crepoljska company
    • Democratic Federal Yugoslavia parts of Partisan Zvijezda Detachment
      • Nišić battalion
      • Crnovrška company
      • Vlahinjska company
    Strength
  • Independent State of Croatia 250 Croatian Home Guard members
  • 220 militiamen
  • 2 mountain guns
  • 2 machine guns
    • 400 Chetniks
    • Battery of unknown guns

    • Democratic Federal Yugoslavia 800 Partisans
    Casualties and losses
    • 13 Croatian Home Guards and 26 militiamen killed
    • 9 Croatian Home Guards and 30 militiamen wounded
    • 21 Croatian Home Guards imprisoned
    • 17 Croatian Home Guards and 45 militiamen missing
    At least 240 Chetniks according to Croatian sources
    Civilian victims of terror:
    Olovo is located in NDH
    Olovo
    Olovo
    Location of Olovo in the eastern NDH
    Olovo is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Olovo
    Olovo
    Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

    The Capture of Olovo (1 November — 17 December 1941) was a battle fought between allied forces of Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks) and Yugoslav Partisans against Axis forces of the Independent State of Croatia garrisoned in Olovo in the first year of World War II in Yugoslavia.

    1. ^ (Institut 1953, p. 242): "pričao je istoj lično četnik to je njihov vođa Radovan Trivun iz Belih Voda,..."