Cemetery at Drvar MTO (id:#57225)

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Drvar, Yugoslavia 1944-05-26 (3 others)

Overview:

eration Rosselsprung ("Knight's Move"), the attempt to capture or eliminate Marshal Tito, had ended in dismal failure. The surprise airborne assault on his headquarters, for which the Germans had such high hopes, had ground itself up o n the slopes of Tito's fortified hillside. After an afternoon of costly assaults that approached but never reached Tito's headquarters cave, the Germans admitted defeat. The SS Paras were now plagued by encirclement and growing partisan pressure. Food, water and ammunition were running short due t o intense heat, heavy fighting and ineffective supply drops. Relief columns that had been ordered to break through t o the paras that first day had failed to appear. The German commanders sent runners to notify all elements of the battalion and its supporting units to disengage and fall back to the town of Drvar. After an extremely difficult fighting withdrawal, they arrived a t the town's cemetery, the most defensible position available to them.

Defender: German (SS) (SS Parachute Battalion 500)  

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