How the OSS supported Yugoslav independence movements in WWII – Interview with Blaz Torkar

Blaž Torkar is an assistant professor of history at the Military Schools Centre of the Slovenian Armed forces. He researches the history of intelligence services, Allied military missions in Yugoslavia during WWII, the Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defense, and the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991. He wrote a book on the OSS in Yugoslavia during WWII and we spoke about the book, the OSS, and Yugoslavian resistance movements. Mission Yugoslavia (McFarland, 2020)

 

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Today in Military History May 6

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May 6 1856 Explorer and US Navy Officer Robert Edwin Perry born https://amzn.to/3eoPtf7

May 6 1527 – Sack of Rome (War of the League of Cognac)

May 6 1537 – Siege of Cuzco begins (Spanish conquest of Peru)

May 6 1592 – Battle of Okpo begins (Imjin War) (Naval) https://amzn.to/2PTLg9R

May 6 1622 – Battle of Wimpfen (Thirty Years’ War) https://amzn.to/3f21Xs6

May 6 1646 – Newark taken (English Civil War) https://amzn.to/3uqtJVX

May 6 1757 – Battle of Prague (Seven Years’ War) https://amzn.to/3eXBrAh

May 6 1780 – Battle of Leund’s Ferry (American Revolutionary War) https://amzn.to/3urLMee

May 6 1782 – British Nassau surrenders to Spain (American Revolutionary War)

May 6 1813 – Raid at Georgetown and Fredericktown, MD (War of 1812) https://amzn.to/3nOdHCR

May 6 1814 – Battle of Fort Oswego ends (War of 1812)

May 6 1827 – Battle of Phaleron (Greek War of Independence) https://amzn.to/3xO7uLE

May 6 1861 – State of war between North and South made official (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3eT8zsZ

May 6 1864 – Battle of the Wilderness ends; Battle of Port Walthall Junction begins (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/33pChAg

May 6 1915 – Second Battle of Krithia begins (WWI) https://amzn.to/3xQkMr4

May 6 1941 – The German Greenock Blitz on Scotland begins; Operation Tiger begins (WWII) (Naval)

May 6 1942 – Surrender at Corregidor (WWII) https://amzn.to/3tqmSu8

May 6 1945 – US forces liberate the Ebensee concentration camp; US forces take Pilsen (WWII) https://amzn.to/3emKsnC

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Today in Military History May 5

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1800 – Battle of Moerskirch (also Messkirch) (War of the Second Coalition)
1804 – Battle of Suriname (Napoleonic Wars – Suriname)
1811 – Battle of Fuentes de Onoro ends (Peninsular War) https://amzn.to/3nS7TZ6

1813 – Dudley’s Massacre (War of 1812) https://amzn.to/3nOdHCR
1814 – Battle of Fort Oswego begins (War of 1812)
1862 – Battle of Williamsburg, VA; Actions at Lebanon, TN and Dresden, KY (US Civil War); Battle of Puebla (French intervention in Mexico) https://amzn.to/3vKQLak

1864 –Battle of Albemarle Sound (US Civil War Naval); Battle of the Wilderness begins (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3eT8zsZ

1943 – Soviets take Krymsk and Neberjaisk (WWII) https://amzn.to/33ldnSB

1945 – German forces in Holland, Denmark and north Germany surrender (WWII); Allies take Swinemunde and Peenemunde (WWII); Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon (WWII) https://amzn.to/3emKsnC

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