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Operation ŠEKOVIĆI

Podhvat Šekovići

Intro

NDH anti-partisan operation in area of Šekovići, eastern Bosnia.

History

As result of breakout of main group of Yugoslav Partisan divisions from encirclement at Sutjeska in operation SCHWARZ in direction of eastern Bosnia NDH garrisons in the area would soon be faced with serious threat. To secure rear area against attacks from local Partisans operation was ordered by German 369th Division to 3rd Home Defense Corps to clear Birač mountain.

Operation

Begun on 6 June.

On 8 June, Partisans decided to avoid main NDH forces and instead slip out of loose encirclement and attack Srebrenica which was lightly defended since most of the garrison troops were used in the operation against Šekovići. Srebrenica was overrun on night 11/12 June forcing pause in operation in order to clear Partisans who regrouped and returned to Šekovići.

3rd Corps ordered operation to continue on 12 June but arrival of Proletarian divisions from south forced operation to finally be canceled and order to regroup and abandon all NDH garrisons smaller then company.

Order of battle

  • NDH troops - around 10000 troops in ten battalions
    • 1st Ustasha Active Service Brigade
      • 1st Battalion
      • Half-battalion 'Kurelac' - major Josip Kurelac
        • 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion
        • 3rd Company of the 22nd Battalion
        • 4th Company of the 22nd Battalion

    • 1st and 2nd battalions of the 15th Home Defense Infantry Regiment - colonel Josip Kopačin
    • Domdo battalion Vlasenica
    • 2 battalions from the Tuzla brigade
      • 1st - towards Vrhovine, 19 missing
    • 2 batteries of the 7th Artillery Battalion
    • 3 battalions from the Domdo Regiment Tuzla
      • Domdo battalion Kladanj - Avdaga Hasić
    • Chetniks
    • ?
  • Yugoslav Partisans
      • 1st Vojvodina Brigade
      • 2nd Vojvodina Brigade
      • Birač partisan detachment
    • ?

Casualties

t :

  • Axis
    • killed
    • wounded
    • captured
  • Yugoslav Partisans
    • killed
    • wounded

Loot captured by Partisans:

Aftermath

Despite quick regrouping Ustashe 9th, 21st, 28th and 29th Active Service battalions were overrun and destroyed.

Partisan counter offensive in eastern Bosnia forced Germans to commit 369th and 7th SS divisions to new operation in July.

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