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Artillery support was to be provided by the organic and attached artillery units in
the brigades and regiments. Th e Karlovac Corps District formed two artillery&rocket
groups out of artillery units of the 10 th Artillery Battalion and the HV General Staff
16 th Artillery&Rocket Brigade. Th e groups had to neutralize Serbian artillery at Brezova
Glava, the villages of Vukmanić, Veljun, Egići, Latin, Latasi, Kukići, Lončari and
Karajlovići, and prevent, by barrage fi re, possible Serbian counterattacks from Vojnić -
Brezova Glava, Vrginmost - Skakav and Primišlje - Poloj - Perjasica. It was also supposed
to support the attack of the 110 th Home Guard Regiment at its request or at the order to
the commander of the Corps District.
Th e brigades and regiments also had to provide anti-armour capability with organic
units and attached reinforcements. At Corps level an anti-armour detachment and an
anti-armour company were formed from the 7 th and 13 th Anti-Armour Artillery-Rocket
Battalions. Both anti-armour systems were deployed in the areas of Mrežnički Brest,
Grginčići, Siča - Cerovac, ready for anti-armour defence and intervention as ordered by
the commander of the Corps District.
Air defence artillery was responsible for protecting the artillery&rocket groups,
armoured units, depots for the storage of ammunition, mines and explosive devices,
command posts, crossings of the Kupa and Korana, and towns. Two Mi-24 helicopter
gunships for air support were available to the Corps on call for anti-armour actions and
destruction of major centres of resistance. Every unit was responsible for its own RBKO
(radio-biochemical protection) capability. Th e engineer part of the operation focused
on the forced crossing of the rivers Kupa, Korana and Mrežnica, manoeuvring support
at Rečica - Bođani - Vukmanić, and obstructions placement at the achieved positions.
Th e Command of the Corps District was in Karlovac, and the Advanced Command in
Ogulin. Th e commander of the Corps District was Major-General Miljenko Crnjac. 277
Th e enemy forces in the zone of responsibility of the Karlovac Corps District were
the Kordun Corps and the 70 th Infantry Brigade of the SVK Lika Corps. Th e Corps was
headquartered on (mount) Petrova Gora and comprised the 11 th , 13 th and 19 th Infantry
Brigades, the 21 st Border Detachment, the 21th Reconnaissance&Sabotage Department,
the 21 st Composite Artillery battalion, the 75th Composite Anti-Armour Artillery
Battalion, the 75 th Engineer Battalion and the 85 th Rear-Echelon Base in Slunj. Th e
Corps commander, Colonel Veljko Bosanac, was replaced by Colonel Čedo Bulat on
5 August in the evening. 278 According to the commitment directive of February 1995,
the Kordun Corps was to draw out and destroy HV forces by persistent defence along
the Gradac- Lasinja - Vrginmost, Karlovac - Vojnić and Generalski Stol - Slunj lines,
277 MORH, GSHV: ZPP Karlovac, cl. 8/95-01/88, reg. no. 1078-03/1-95-143 of 24 July 1995; Excerpt from
attack order Op. No. 1. MORH, GSHV: ZPP Karlovac, cl. 8/95-01/88, reg. no. 1078-03/1-95-265 of 29 July
1995; Modifi cation of attack order Op. No. 1.
278 HDA, RSK; Kordun Corps Command, conf. no. 160-556/2 of 15 November 1994; War manning report.
VSA MORH: 21th Corps Command, conf. no. 308 of 27 July 1995; Information to subordinate units. M.
Sekulić, «Knin je pao u Beogradu» (Knin Fell in Belgrade), 214-223.
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