By David Greentree
25 мая 1944 года, 800 человек из парашютно-десантного батальона СС спустились в город Дрвар в северо-западной Боснии. Их целью было убить или захватить Тито, лидера партизанского движения. Это был один из самых масштабных, но малоизвестных провалов
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And so, there were no machineguns in position. The paratroopers advanced. We shot a few of them. My escort battalion was with me. When the ‘Germans finally realized that there was something here; they began firing into the cave’. Tito described how ‘we were able to observe everything from above. ’ However, escape from his hut down the track to the Unac valley was too dangerous. Dedijer wrote how ‘a courier from Supreme Headquarters went forward to survey the ground and discover the whereabouts of the Germans, but was wounded in the head and fell at Tito’s side’.
Several called for the flamethrowers, but as these wanted to prepare for combat, it became apparent that during landing they were damaged and obsolete. Subsequently, SS Oberscharführer Hummel tore his camouflage combination from his body, ran toward the last tank, jumped up and held the clothing in front of the observation slit so that the driver would not see anything. However, he positioned the tank across the street and jerked back and forth against the house walls and shook off Hummel. Afterwards a man from the tank crew opened the hatch and shot at the man laying on the ground.
Pilots were told to land their gliders as close as possible to their targets, even at risk of damage. Sieg then returned to his base where they ‘were immediately given precise instructions; likewise the pilots of the glider tugs were informed of the exact flight path, altitude and other operational requirements’. Relieving forces were moving up to their start lines with elements of the 7th SS Prinz Eugen Division last in place early the following day. At the airfields on the morning of the drop the paratroopers were on parade at 0430.