Operation Prijedor

Operation Prijedor
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Datemid to late February 1942
Location
northwest Bosnia
44°58′51″N 16°42′48″E / 44.98083°N 16.71333°E / 44.98083; 16.71333
Result Partisan withdrawal
Belligerents
Axis:
 Germany
 Independent State of Croatia
Allies:
Partisans
Commanders and leaders
Nazi Germany Oberst Rudolf Wutte
Strength
around 5,000 troops 1,000 troops
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

Operation Prijedor was a German-Croatian joint counter-insurgency operation conducted around Prijedor in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. It targeted the Yugoslav Partisans that had isolated the garrison of Prijedor in Bosnia between late January and mid-February 1942.