Karlovac brigade

Karlovac assault brigade

of Yugoslav partisans

History

Command of 4th Corps of Yugoslav partisans issued Order no.4 on 27 February 1944 for formation of Karlovac brigade.

Brigade formed for the first time in the morning of 5 March 1944 in village HraÅ¡Ä‡e in front of house and mixed goods store of Ivan Latin. On the day of the forming brigade had 640 soldiers.

On 25 November brigade had 1211 soldiers, according to national and social status:

1115 Croats

51 Serbs

17 Slovenians

2 Montenegrins

23 Muslims

1 Russian

2 Czechs

201 workers

806 farmers

33 intellectuals

115 merchants

51 clerks and high school pupils

5 military personnel

Until end of the war Karlovac brigade suffered 337 killed, 442 wounded, 18 died from diseases and 107 missing out of which 30 captured.

It inflicted 1739 casualties on the enemy out of which 722 killed, 457 wounded and 560 captured.

Brigade staff

Brigade commanders

Franjo Molek from 5.3. to 30.6.1944.

Boris BalaÅ¡ from 8.7.1944. to 10.3.1945.

Sulejman Suljo Vascarac from 12.3. to 26.4.1945.

Boris BalaÅ¡ from 26.4.1945. to end of the war

Brigade political commissars

Petar Erdeljac from 5.3. to 9.11.1944.

Rafko Rafael Tabor from 9.11.1944. to end of the war

Political commissars assistants

Rafko Rafael Tabor from 5.3. to 9.11.1944.

Janko Furdek from 20.11.1944 to 7.3.1945.

Ivan KatuÅ¡iÄ‡ from 10.3.1945. to end of the war

Brigade chieff of staff

Ivan Graho from 20.6. to 25.8.1944.

Rade Å kljac from 28.8. to 10.12.1944.

Simo MiÅ¡ÄeviÄ‡ from 15.12.1944. to end of the war

References

Josip Lulik Pepo, Äuro Zatezalo: KarlovaÄka udarna brigada

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