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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE BALKANS: Free Men | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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