Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Draja Mihailovich's fiery army of 145-150,000 former Yugoslav regulars, Serb Chetnik guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
When Hitler's Panzers began rolling into Yugoslavia last April, General (then Colonel) Mihailovich led his regiment into the mountain fastnesses near the Albanian border and let the enemy roll on to Greece. The collapse of the only partly mobilized Yugoslav Army meant that thousands of soldiers, fully and modernly equipped, rushed to Mihailovich. Soon Mihailovich began systematically harassing Nazi police units and the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustashi...
After World War I he spent years in Yugoslav staff activity, became an expert on Nazi fifth-column activity. Early in 1940 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for "disloyalty" in filing documents on the fifth column with Regent Prince Paul and the Serb quisling-to-be, General Milutin Nedich. Friends near the high command had Mihailovich freed...
...London last week the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile did General Mihailovich proper honors; they made him Minister of War. At the same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...
From Yugoslavia, where Serb patriots under General Draja Mikhailovitch have been fighting pitched battles with Nazi troops, came word that Yugoslav and Greek "freedom armies" had joined forces, would henceforth fight a unified campaign. Communiques from the Axis lines told of capturing a town from the Chetniks, of the execution of 57 men and seven women for anti-Nazi activity...