Capture of Olovo (1941)

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.

Capture of Olovo
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia

Olovo in 1963
Date1 November — 17 December 1941
Location
Olovo, Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)
44.07°N 18.34°E / 44.07; 18.34
Result

Chetnik-Partisan victory

  • Chetniks and Partisans captured Olovo
Belligerents
Independent State of Croatia Chetniks
Yugoslav Partisans
Commanders and leaders
  • Mihajlo Lukić
    • Janko Sreharski
      • Ante Marinković
  • Radovan Trivun
Units involved
  • Croatian Home Guard - 2 companies:
    • the 4th company of Sarajevo Reserve Battalion
    • the 17th company of the 6th Infantry Regiment
  • 180 Muslim militiamen
  • 40 gendarmes
  • a battery of mountain guns
  • 4 Chetnik companies
  • parts of Partisan Romanija Detachment
    • Knežina company
    • Bjelogoračka company
    • Crepoljska company
  • parts of Partisan Zvijezda Detachment
    • Nišić battalion
    • Crnovrška company
    • Vlahinjska company
Strength
  • 250 Croatian Home Guard members
  • 220 militiamen
  • 2 mountain guns
  • 2 machine guns
  • 400 Chetniks
  • Battery of unknown guns
  • 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
Location of Olovo in the eastern NDH
Olovo
Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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