Capture of Olovo (1941)

Capture of Olovo
Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
Olovo in 1963
Date 1 November — 17 December 1941 Location Olovo, Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) 44°04′N 18°20′E / 44.07°N 18.34°E / 44.07; 18.34 Result Chetnik-Partisan victory Chetniks and Partisans captured Olovo
Belligerents
Independent State of Croatia	Chetniks Yugoslav Partisans
Commanders and leaders
Mihajlo Lukić Janko Sreharski Ante Marinković	Radovan Trivun[1]
Units involved
Croatian Home Guard - 2 companies: the 4th company of Sarajevo Reserve Battalion the 17th company of the 6th Infantry Regiment 180 Muslim militiamen 40 gendarmes a battery of mountain guns	4 Chetnik companies parts of Partisan Romanija Detachment Knežina company Bjelogoračka company Crepoljska company parts of Partisan Zvijezda Detachment Nišić battalion Crnovrška company Vlahinjska company
Strength
250 Croatian Home Guard members 220 militiamen 2 mountain guns 2 machine guns	400 Chetniks Battery of unknown guns 800 Partisans
Casualties and losses
13 Croatian Home Guards and 26 militiamen killed 9 Croatian Home Guards and 30 militiamen wounded 21 Croatian Home Guards imprisoned 17 Croatian Home Guards and 45 militiamen missing	At least 240 Chetniks according to Croatian sources
Civilian victims of terror:
Olovo class=notpageimage| Location of Olovo in the eastern NDH Show map of NDH Olovo Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Show map of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Capture of Olovo (1 November — 17 December 1941) was a battle fought between allied forces of Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks) and Yugoslav Partisans against Axis forces of the Independent State of Croatia garrisoned in Olovo in the first year of World War II in Yugoslavia.