The 4th Corps ( sh-Latn, Četvrti korpus) was a
Yugoslav Partisan corps that fought against the
Germans,
Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and
Chetniks
The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...
in occupied
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during
World War II.
It was created on 22 November 1942 with the 6th Lika, 7th Banija and 8th Kordun divisions as the 1st Croatian Corps. It was renamed the 4th (Croatian) Corps on 5 October 1943.
Commander of the Corps was
Ivan Gošnjak and later
Ivan Rukavina. Political Comissar
Većeslav Holjevac, future Mayor of Zagreb.
It operated in Croatia, South of the
Sava river and in the
Una river valley. During the Fourth Axis offensive (
Case White
Case White (german: Fall Weiss), also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive ( sh, Četvrta neprijateljska ofenziva/ofanziva), was a combined Axis strategic offensive launched against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout occupied Yugoslavia during ...
), the Corps was heavily engaged in the
Banija and
Kordun area's and defended the liberated area of
Lika
Lika () is a traditional region of Croatia proper, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by ...
. During 1943, it conducted successful actions and created liberated territory between the rivers Una and Sava, in Slovenia,
Gorski Kotar and Lika.
In the 1945 final operations of the Yugoslav Army, the Corps participated in the liberation of Bihać, Lika, Karlovac and Zagreb. It was disbanded on 15 May 1945.
Sources
vojska.net
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Corps of the Yugoslav Partisans
Military units and formations established in 1942
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945