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Italian Air Force Operations.
The I.A.F. have the following forces employed in operations in
Yugoslavia and Albania :--
a/c.
B.R. 20 Bomber Recce. 40
C.R. 42/G.50/MC.200 S.E.F. 30.
C.A. 311/312/314/R.C.37/B.R.20 Army Co-op. 80
Cant. O. 501/506 Seaplanes 10
Total 160
Units are based at Durazzo/Sciak, Tirana, Oemonico, Valona,
Scutari, Berat / Devoli, Mostar, Ljubljana and Split.
During the past two months a relatively small scale of effort
has been put up, for the most part in direct support of ground
operations.
ANNEX D.
SABOTAGE CARRIED OUT IN YUGOSLAVIA SINCE 1ST MAY, 1943.
May.
Engine blown up at Pocekovina through ammanol in the coal.
Collision between a fast train and a German troop train at
Stevanac, near Stalac, was organised. Two railway engines and
tenders, six passenger coaches and two motor cars were completely
destroyed. A railway bridge 1,000 yards south of Priboj was destroyed
by Cetniks from Pristina. 2,500 Partisans carried out wrecking
of 5 miles of the Karlovac-Metlika line. Four miles of the Oagreb-Metlika-Ljubljana
line were wrecked.
The Ogulin-Fiume line was being continually attacked and Partisans
claim an average of one locomotive and ten trucks daily.
The ship Johann Walner was attacked and sunk south of Dobra
in the Danube. One tanker sunk, tug and other tanker driven on
the rocks by the Roumanian bank. Traffic was not reopened for
5 days, and subsequently important traffic has been accompanied
by tanker or motorised units on the Roumanian bank.
200 yards of track wrecked at Ponivak on Karlovac-Ogulin line.
One engine and 1 wagon on the Karlovac-Ogulin line between
Tounj, Odenac and Gornje Dubrave damaged and resulting in one
day's hold-up.
Karlovac-Ogulin line wrecked between Generalski Stol and Ovecaj.
A troop train attacked by Partisans west of Ogulin resulted
in a 32 %~hour battle, causing Axis losses of 100 killed and wounded,
including 6 Italian officers, 26 Italian and Pavelic prisoners
taken, engine destroyed and 24 wagons burned.
50 yards of track and 2 block-houses on the Karlovac-Ogulin line
between Ovecaj and Belovic.
A German tug damaged by limpet fixed in the harbour of Velike
Gradiste and had to be towed to Vienna in an unserviceable condition:
Train wrecked at Gomirje on Ogulin-Susak line, 30 coaches
burnt, 200 prisoners, 14 machine guns and other weapons captured.
Engine and many coaches of a freight train were mined between
Ovecaj and Generalski Stol in the Gorski Kotor sector.
Four trains blown up on the Ogulin-Susak line, 2 locomotives
and many coaches wrecked; 5 day's hold-up.
June.
Three freight trains with war material for Greece wrecked
on the Belgrade-Oagreb line with large enemy losses. The station
of Desinac on this line has been wrecked. The Oagreb-Osijek line
has been wrecked in 5 places each for a length of 500 yards.
A big railway collision was organised at Vircin station, about
50 Germans killed and injured and a 36-hour delay caused.
Partisans raided the German glider school at Samabor, destroying
two trainer planes and thirty gliders.
Stemnica, Melnica and Ranovac mines were put out of action
by Cetniks by demolition of the main working junction.
A railway bridge 40 yards long, 6 miles west of Kruselac, was
destroyed.