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Neretva River, Bosnia

The Battle of Neretva — Bosnia and Herzegovina

Scene

Yugoslav Partisan forces fight German and Ustaše troops at the Neretva River crossing, 1943.

History

The Battle of Neretva (February-March 1943) was one of the largest Partisan operations of the Yugoslav war. Tito's forces defeated a combined German-Italian-Ustaše offensive while evacuating 4,000 wounded soldiers across a destroyed bridge.

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