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| Race for Trieste | |||||||
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| Part of World War II in Yugoslavia and the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy | |||||||
 Tanks of the Yugoslav 4th Army in Trieste | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Yugoslavia New Zealand[1] Italian Resistance |
 Germany Italian Social Republic Chetniks | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Petar Drapšin Bernard Freyberg Ercole Miani |
Odilo Globočnik[3] Giovanni Esposito Momčilo Đujić  | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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4th Army 2nd Division[1] |
10th SS Police Regiment 204th Regional Military Command Dinara Division Serbian Volunteer Corps | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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68,601–84,000[4]:243 19,423[5] |
20,000[4]:286 5,000 13,000[6] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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436 dead 1,159 wounded[5] |
2,842 killed 3,829–5,200 captured 99 cannons 74 AA guns | ||||||
| 6,500–8,500 civilians killed[2][7] | |||||||
The Race for Trieste (Italian: Corsa per Trieste),[8] also known as the Trieste Operation (Slovene: Tržaška operacija), was a battle during the Second World War that took place during early May 1945. It led to a joint allied victory for the Yugoslav Partisans and 2nd New Zealand Division and a joint occupation of Trieste, but relations soon deteriorated and led to a nine-year dispute over the territory of Trieste. This battle is also considered the last battle in which a considerable force of Chetniks fought, as 13,000 of the irregular troops under Momčilo Đujić surrendered to the New Zealand forces under Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Freyberg as the battle progressed.
- ^ a b New Zealand History: Faenza, Trieste, and home
- ^ a b Hedges, Chris (20 April 1997). "In Trieste, Investigation of Brutal Era Is Blocked". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "Stanford University: The Trieste Crisis"
- ^ a b Anić, Nikola (2004). Povijest Osmog Korpusa Narodnooslobodilačke Vojske Hrvatske 1943–1945 [History of the Eighth Dalmatian Corps of the Croatian National Liberation Army: 1943–1945] (PDF) (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ a b "1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand: The Army"
- ^ "Vojska.net: Trieste operation"
- ^ San Sabba (2009). "Risiera di San Sabba. History and Museum." Committee of the Nazi Lager of Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste: 3. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ Sir Geoffrey Cox, The Race for Trieste, London, Kimber, 1977.