Operation Alfa

Not to be confused with Operation Alpha or Project Alpha.
Operation Alfa
Part of the Yugoslav Front of World War II
Date October 5 – October 10, 1942
Location Prozor, occupied Yugoslavia
Result Capture of Prozor
Belligerents
 Italy
Chetniks
 Independent State of Croatia		 Yugoslav partisans
Strength
9,000 soldiers

Operation Alfa was an Italian-Chetnik military operation carried out in the Prozor region.[1] Prozor was located within the Italian third occupation zone in the Independent State of Croatia.

The operation began on October 5, 1942 and by October 8 the town of Prozor had been retaken from the 10th Herzegovina Brigade of the Yugoslav Partisans.[1] The operation ended on October 10 when the Partisan line broke and the Italians came into contact with Croatian Home Guard troops.[1]

Chetnik troops killed 638 local Croats and Bosnian Muslims during the operation, to which the Italian forces did not intervene.[2] A survivor of the massacre later testified at the Trial of Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović.[3]

Axis order of battle

 Italy

Chetniks

 Independent State of Croatia (at operation conclusion)

References

  1. ^ a b c Operation ALFA
  2. ^ Anti-Partisan Operations in Croatia: Operation "Alfa" (1942-10-05)
  3. ^ Second World War (1941-1945)