Operation Alfa

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Operation Alfa
Part of the Yugoslavian Front of World War II
Date October 5 – 10, 1942 Location Prozor Result Capture of Prozor
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy Chetniks	Yugoslav Partisans
Strength
9000 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]

[edit] Axis order of battle

 Italy

• Italian VI Corps (4000 soldiers)
  • 94th Infantry Rgt./18th Infantry Div. “Messina”
  • XXIX Bn./4th Bersaglieri Rgt.

Chetniks

• Trebinje Corps
• Nevesinje Corps
• Romanija Corps

Independent State of Croatia (at operation conclusion)

• elements of 7th Infantry Rgt.
• elements of 15th Infantry Rgt.

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