Partisan Dispositions Around Drvar
Apart from Partisan headquarters and related organisations close in and around Drvar, there were between 12,000 and 16,000 Partisans in the area of operations that would be subject to the ground assault by XV Mountain Corps. In the immediate vicinity of Drvar was the Partisan 1st Proletarian Corps consisting of the elite 1st Proletarian Division and 6th Proletarian Division, with the Corps headquarters located in the village of Mokronoge, six kilometres east of Drvar. The nearest large Partisan formation to Drvar was the 3rd Proletarian Brigade of the 1st Proletarian Division based in the village of Kamenica five kilometres south of Drvar.
In the wider area of operations were the Partisan 5th Corps and 8th Corps, with the 5th Corps to the northeast and northwest of Drvar with its headquarters south of the Mrkonjic Grad-Klujc road, and the 8th Corps to the south east with its headquarters in the mountains between the Glamoc and Livno valleys. Importantly, the 4th Division of the 5th Corps was deployed between Bihac and Bosanski Petrovac and the 9th Division of the 8th Corps was deployed between Livno and Bosansko Grahovo.
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