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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...
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...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt and the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile were convinced that Nazi Germany had, not only precedent, but a blueprint for the destruction of Belgrade, pre-war Yugoslavia's capital city. Belgrade, according to Berlin, is the operations center for the German-hating, fight-loving Chetniks, Serbian guerrilla fighters. Said a terse White House statement: "The city will be surrounded by troops and exposed to bombardment by artillery and from...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile charged that Hitler plans the extermination of the Serbian race, that more than 300,000 men, women and children already have been slaughtered...