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one reconnaissance-sabotage detachment), 1 composite artillery battalion, 1 composite
anti-armour artillery regiment, 1 light air defence artillery-rocket regiment, 2 composite
artillery battalions, two composite anti-armour artillery battalions, 1 engineer battalion,
5 rear bases, and air force and air defence units.
Operation Storm liberated 10,400 sq. km. or 18.4 % of the total area of the Republic of
Croatia. Losses totalled 0.12% or 1,314 persons: 196 killed, 1,100 wounded (572 severely
and 528 lightly), 3 taken prisoner, 15 missing in action. By 21 August 1995 fi ve hundred
and seventy SVK members killed in action were duly recovered and buried.
Th e war booty consisted of 54 armoured combat vehicles, 497 military motor vehicles,
6 combat aircraft , 22 engineer machines, 4,112 infantry weapons, 159 bazookas, 120
mortars of diff erent calibre, 98 fi eld 76 to 152 mm guns, 6 multiple 128 rocket launchers,
59 anti-aircraft guns, and other weapons. 527
War booty
527 MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-505 of 21 August 1995; Report. On
29 August 1995 Dr. Ivica Kostović stated that 211 Croatian soldiers and policemen had been killed in Storm.
«Vojna operacija ‘Oluja’ i poslije» (Military Operation ‘Storm’ and Its Aft ermath), Croatian Helsinki Committee,
Zagreb 2001, 17 (note 14).
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