After months of siege, rebel Serbs and the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) completely occupied Kijevo, the largest ethnically Croatian village in the former Knin municipality on 26 August 1991. Militant …
Darko Babić, a member of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Guard “Black Mamba” Brigade and hero of the Homeland War was killed on 26 August 1992. “Drc”, as …
On 24 August 1991, the first Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) aircraft shot down in the Homeland War took place near the Đergaj silo on the Vukovar battlefront. Located between the …
On this day in 1991, four Croatian police officers were brutally killed while driving in their Zastava 101 police car near the village of Žuta Lokva. Drago Toljan, Zdravko Vuković, …
In late August of 1991, rebel Serb forces with the help of the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) tightened their grip on Topusko. On 23 August 1991 Božidar Jagatić, hero of …
On this day in 1991 Croatian forces launched the first major offensive on the Sisak battlefront. The objective of Operation “BRĐANI ’91” was to unblock the road between Komarevo and …
Members of the 108th Slavonian-Brod Brigade and the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd A Brigade of the National Guard Corps achieved a major accomplishment in stopping a train carrying weapons …
In August 1994, a large number of Muslim refugees from western Bosnia arrived in Turanj, a southern suburb of the town of Karlovac. They sought safety in Croatia first but …
On this day, 19 August 1991 rebel Serbs attacked Pakrac, Lipik and Daruvar. The situation in the area had been extremely tense since 1 March 1991 when Serb police officers …
Rebel Croatian Serbs abducted Dr. Ivan Šreter, a local leader of Croats in western Slavonia, at barricades in the village of Kukunjevac near Lipik on 18 August 1991. Ivan Šreter …
