Word: drvar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon I watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...
...there and find out whether I am lying," I said. In fact, Tito was in his grotto when the German paratroops descended on Drvar. His men pulled him up a rope to the summit of the steep cliff while the shooting was going on in the valley. He then walked over to a nearby hill, and from there directed the battle. That day and night his entire staff and all the files and papers were evacuated in the same manner, and when on the following day the Germans finally broke into the cave they found it empty...
...Croatia and Bosnia last week swept a formidable Axis army. Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly one-sixth of Yugoslavia-larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The Stukas started off well by destroying the towns of Drvar and Tsetingrad...
...Bosanska Krajina Partisans created a tiny state in the wedge-shaped area in Croatia bounded by the towns of Glamoch, Drvar, Petrovach, Kljuch and Donji Vakuf. They prepared systematically for major military operations. They trained their ever-growing armies, not for pinprick sabotage, but for a major campaign to drive the Axis from Yugoslavia...
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