Capture of Banja Koviljača
1941 battle in German-occupied Serbia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Capture of Banja Koviljača (1–6 September 1941) was a long battle fought by cooperating forces of Chetniks and Yugoslav Partisans against German forces. On 1 September 1941, the insurgents attacked German soldiers who were garrisoned in an outpost at Banja Koviljača in the German-occupied territory of Serbia. The battle reflected skillful command by leaders of the uprising.[5]
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Capture of Banja Koviljača | |||||||
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Part of the Uprising in Serbia during World War II in Yugoslavia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Chetniks Partisans |
Germany Independent State of Croatia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Chetniks Nikola Radovanović Bogdan Drljača Georgije Bojić Lazar Savić Dragoslav Račić Obren Popović † Partisans Aleksandar Stanković Mika Mitrović |
Mate Rupčić Grum | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Chetniks Jadar Detachment Cer Detachment Partisans 4th company Pocerski Battalion Podrinski Division |
9th company | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
3,000 Chetniks |
300 Germans 300 Ustaše[4] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 killed 4 wounded [3] | unknown |
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