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1st Dalmatian Assault Brigade

(Prva Dalmatinska Udarna brigada)

History

Formed on 6 September 1942 in village Dobro, Livno. Fought in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Dalmatia, on islands Hvar, Vis, Korčula and Brač.

In March 1945, brigade had total strength 2232 out of which 1806 were combat ready (rest in brigade or divisional hospital):

• 82/646 workers
• 90/1128 peasants
• 12/130 intellectuals
• 14/113 clerks
• 2/7 prewar officers
• 2/32 prewar police officers

• 1949 Croats (192 officers, 1757 soldiers)
• 100 Serbs (23 officers, 77 soldiers)
• 76 Slovenes
• 10 Montenegrins (2 officers)
• 27 Muslims (2 officers)
• 51 Italians
• 37 Russians
• 27 Jews
• 27 Germans
• 21 Poles
• 3 other nationalites

Staff

• Commander
• Bogdan Stupar
• Political Commissar
• Vladimir Marković InÄ‘o
• Chief of Staff
• 3rd Battalion deputy Political Commissar
• Marinko Žižić - killed on 26 November

Battles & Campaigns

• Operation WEISS
• Operation SCHWARZ
• Operation GEISERICH
• Operation LANDSTURM
• Operation ENDOWMENT
• Operation FLOUNCED
• Operation HERBSTGEWITTER 1944
• Operation SEYDLITZ
• Operation EISBÄR
• Operation KRANICH
• Knin operation
• Mostar operation
• Trst (Trieste) operation

Reference

• Mirko Novović, Stevan Petković: Prva dalmatinska proleterska NOU brigada, Vojnoizdavački zavod, Beograd 1986

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