Operation DREÅ½NICA

Operation DREÅ½NICA

Unternehmen DreÅ¾nica

History

With Operation NIBELUNGENFAHRT tying down most of Partisans units, 15th Mountain Corps probably took opportunity to use remaining regimental group from 114th Jager Division for one last operation before it would be "lost" to Army Group C which need reinforcements to eliminate Anzio bridgehead.

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Order of battle

Casualties

Axis

392nd Division

12 killed

16 wounded

27 missing

4 Ustasha missing

114th Division

3 killed

10 wounded

Yugoslav Partisans

156 killed

16 captured

18 horses killed

11 machine-guns

1 mortar

1 truck

1 krad

1 tank

various military installations and warehouses destroyed

Bad roads prevented Germans from transporting captured lot which was destroyed:

34 (13?) light machine guns

8 sub machine guns

12 (3?) light mortars

25 rifles

24 trucks

3 tanks

3 krader

1 armored car (not working)

35 wagons (Italian)

2 tents

500 land mines

18000 shells 75mm

30000 mortar rounds 80mm

120000 rounds of various ammo

etc

Aftermath

Despite destroying such huge lot, even bigger amount of weapons was discovered in the same area just two months later during Operation KEULENSCHLAG, German forces obviously didn't have time to make proper search of the area besides being unable to repair the roads and transport captured equipment to safety.