Operation Floxo

Operation Floxo
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
A section of 31st Light AA Battery, Royal Artillery 75mm mountain Howitzers pound the German garrison at Risan from a distance of 1,200 yards.
Location
Commanded by'Floydforce'
  • Brigadier J P O'Brien-Twohig

'Finneyforce'

  • Major Pat Turner
ObjectiveSupporting Yugoslav Partisans during Axis withdrawal from Greece and Albania
Date30 October – 22 December 1944
Executed by United Kingdom
OutcomeOperational success
Casualties
  • German - 300-400
  • British/Partisan - unknown

Operation Floxo was an intervention by the British army in Yugoslavia in October 1944, during the Second World War.[1] The operation's main objective was to aid Yugoslav Partisans, led by Marshal Tito, in preventing the German withdrawal from Greece and Albania via Montenegro, and "to give the greatest possible artillery support to the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation".[2]

  1. ^ Forty & Forty 2023, p. 52.
  2. ^ McConville, p. 273