Operation "Knight's Move". Members of the 500th SS Parachute Battalion jumping out of the Junkers (Ju 52) aircrafts of the 4th Transport Wing over Drvar (seen in the foreground is a DFS 230 glider of the 1st Airborne Wing). It is the second wave of paratroopers, who landed near the cemetery around noon and were met by Partisan fire while in the air, suffering heavy casualties. Among others, killed during the jump was the deputy battalion commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer Obermaier.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Karnath, Air Force War Correspondent Battalion South-East.
Date: 25 May 1944.
Location: Drvar (district of Bosanski Petrovac), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: "Airborne troops and paratroopers smash Tito's headquarters. The jump into the battle. From transport planes, the German paratroopers dive into the valley, in which Josip Broz has hidden his 'bodyguard'."
Sources: NIOD, via Beeldbank WO2, 20757; Karel Margry, "Operation 'Rösselsprung' – The airborne raid on Tito's headquarters", After the Battle, Essex, 15.08.2014, no 165, pp. 9–10, 26–27. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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Operacija "Potez skakačem". Pripadnici 500. padobranskog SS-bataljona iskaču iz junkersovih aviona (Ju 52) 4. transportnog puka nad Drvarom (u prvom planu se vidi jedna jedrilica DFS 230 iz 1. vazdušnodesantnog puka). U pitanju je drugi talas padobranaca, koji je oko podneva spušten u blizini groblja i još u vazduhu bio dočekan partizanskim rafalima, pretrpevši osetne gubitke. Između ostalih, prilikom skoka je poginuo i zamenik komandanta bataljona, SS-hauptšturmfirer Obermajer.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Karnat, Vazduhoplovni ratnodopisnički bataljon Jugoistok.
Datum: 25. maj 1944.
Mesto: Drvar (srez Bosanskopetrovački), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: "Vazdušnodesantne jedinice i padobranci razbijaju Titov štab. Skok u borbu. Iz transportnih aviona obrušavaju se nemački padobranci u dolinu, u kojoj je Josip Broz skrio svoju 'telesnu gardu'."
Izvori: NIOD, via Beeldbank WO2, 20757; Karel Margry, "Operation 'Rösselsprung' – The airborne raid on Tito's headquarters", After the Battle, Essex, 15.08.2014, br. 165, str. 9–10, 26–27. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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