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day they reached the planned line: village of Živice - Markovac (tp 1081) - southern
slopes of Veliki Javornik - Dobri Vrh - Lička Jesenica - Javornik railway line - Lička
Jesenica railway station. Th e fi rst stage of the mission was thereby fully completed. 237
Th e HV 1 st Guards Brigade entered Lička Jesenica, continued to advance towards
Saborsko - Sertić Poljana - Poljanak and reached by the evening the area of Selište
Drežničko. In cooperation with the 2 nd battalion of the Brigade, the 2 nd battalion of the HV
119 th Brigade was committed in the drive towards Glibodol - Lička Jesenica - Saborsko,
and seized Tisovi Vrh, Pištenica and Deriguz. In the early evening, one battalion and the
General Staff units of the HV 119 th Brigade were committed in the area of the village of
Saborsko. 238
Aft er the unsuccessful fi rst day, in the morning of 5 August the HV 133 rd Home Guard
Regiment was reinforced with one battalion of the HV 150th Brigade. 239 Aft er regrouping
and the commitment of the battalion of the HV 150 th Brigade, the 133 rd Home Guard
Regiment liberated Petrinić Polje and encircled from the north and south the Serbian
forces at Vrhovine, Doljani, Škare and Glavace. 240 Th e 8 th Home Guard was also committed
in the same action. Its 1 st Infantry Battalion was engaged in the advance towards Turjanski
- Obljaj with the mission to seize the Vrhovine - Korenica communication and encircle
the Serbian forces at Vrhovine from Kangrgino Brdo - Veliki Obljaj. By the evening the
battalion liberated the area of Turjansko Polje and Sječevice. Aft er taking Donji Babin
Potok the battalion intersected the Vrhovine - Korenica road. 241
During 5 August the HV 128 th Brigade advanced to Homoljačko Polje and intersected
the Vrhovine - Korenica road at Homoljački Klanac - Pogledalo. Aft er mobilization the
154 th Home Guard Regiment was deployed in the greater area of Ličko Lešće. 242
Th e HV 9 th Guards Brigade routed the Serbian forces along its line of attack, liberated
Ljubovo, intersected the Lički Osik -Korenica road and advanced to Svračkovo Selo and
Bunić. 243 Aft er the Croatian units broke through the Serbian defence line the Serbian
237 MORH, GSHV: 138th Home Guard Reg., cl. str. conf. 035-01/95-01/01, reg. no. 1089-01-93314 of 16
August 1995; Action report.
238 MORH, GSHV: ZP Gospić, 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-08 of 5 August 1995; Regular daily report.
MORH, GSHV: ZZP Gospić, cl. 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-43 of 30 August 1995; Analysis
of the off ensive operation Storm 95. HMDCDR: comments of Mirko Vuković, commander of the 119th
Brigade, on the text about the Gospić Corps District in the military-police operation Storm.
239 MORH, GSHV: ZP Gospić, cl. 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-03 of 5 August 1995; Order.
240 MORH, GSHV: ZZP Gospić, cl. 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-43 of 30 August 1995; Analysis of
the off ensive operation Storm 95. MORH, GSHV: APO 3007 (150th Brigade) cl. 8-/95-01/4, reg. no. 3007-
02/1-95-32 of 5 September 1995; Analysis of battle actions in operation Storm.
241 MORH, GSHV: 8th Home Guards Reg., cl. 035-01/95-01/01, reg. no. 8313-02-95-253 of 30 August 1995;
Analysis of the off ensive operation Storm 95.
242 MORH, GSHV: ZZP Gospić, cl. 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-43 of 30 August 1995; Analysis of
the off ensive operation Storm 95.
243 MORH, GSHV: ZZP Gospić, cl. 80-02/95-01/06, reg. no. 1043-04-95-43 of 30 August 1995; Analysis
of the off ensive operation Storm 95. According to the CIA analysis, the 9th Guards Brigade of the Gospić
Corps District achieved on 5 August some notable successes at Ljubovo, while the MUP Special Forces
seized Gračac and Medak. Th is chopped the 15th Corps into three pockets: one centered on the 50th Brigade
at Vrhovine, another around the remnants of the 18th Brigade at Bunić, and the third around the 103rd
Light Infantry Brigade at Donji Lapac - Korenica onthe Bosnian border. Balkan Battlegrounds: A Military
History of the Yugoslav Confl ict, 1900-1995, 372.
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