Battle of Zvornik

Battle of Zvornik
	Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Date	4–5 July 1943
Location	Zvornik, Independent State of Croatia44°23′3″N 19°6′9″E
Result	Successful capture of Zvornik by Partisan forces
Belligerents
Yugoslav Partisans	Germany ; Independent State of Croatia
Commanders and leaders
Koča Popović (commander) ; Filip Kljajić † (political commissary)	Rudolf Lüters (general)
Casualties and losses
3500–5000	450–2,000

The Battle of Zvornik (Serbo-Croatian: Bitka u Zvorniku) was the 1943 capture by the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the occupied Bosnian town Zvornik from the Wehrmacht and the Ustasha troops of the occupying Independent State of Croatia.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.