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HVO 3 rd Guards Brigade with the Second Tactical Group. Th e HVO Tomislavgrad Corps
District under the command of the OG Sjever IZM (advance command post) in the
village of Vrba near Glamoč was responsible for supporting the assault. 168
Th e 4 th and 7 th Guards Brigades were to crush Serbian forces along the Dinara - Knin
line and gain control of Knin. Th e previous battle line of the 4 th Guards Birgade and
part of the line of the 7 th Guards Brigade from Mačja Greda to Veliki Kik were taken
over by the 81 st Guards Battalion which switched to decisive defence. Th e 1 st Croatian
Guards Brigade was the operational reserve for intervention along jeopardized defence
lines or for assault commitment. HVO forces, the 2 nd and 3 rd Guards Brigades and the
Tomislavgrad Corps District were to attack along the line Glamočko Polje - Mount
Vitorog in order to gain control of Vitorog and the Mlinište pass and thereby facilitate
advance towards Jajce.
Th e mission of Operational Group Sinj was to mount the attack at Dinara - Kijevo and
Svilaja - Kozjak, encircle and eliminate Serbian forces in the valley of the Peruča, gain
control of Kozjak and stand ready for sustaining the advance towards Knin. It comprised
the HV 6 th Home Guard Regiment from Split, the HV 126 th Home Guard Regiment from
Sinj and the HV 144 th Sesvete Brigade. Th e task of the 126 th Home Guard Regiment was
to crush Serbian forces by a spirited pincer movement in the greater area of Uništa along
the line of attack, gain control, as quickly as possible, over the Kijevo - Polača area, and
thereby support the assault of the 6 th Home Guard Regiment on Mount Kozjak. During
its attack the regiment was responsible for protecting the left fl ank of the 4 th and 7 th
Guards Brigade. Along the Vještića Gora - Bravčev Dolac - Vinalić axis the 144 th Brigade
was supposed to eliminate the Serbian forces in the area of Bravčev Dolac and sustain the
attack towards the village of Vinalić in order to eff ect linkup with the 126 th Home Guard
Regiment. Th e 6 th Home Guard Regiment was to break down the Serbian units along
the attack line, gain control of Ivova Glavica, Lisin, Konjska Glava and Razvale Otišićke;
following that, it was to continue its attack towards the village of Maovice and advance
towards Mount Kozjak together with the 126 th Home Guard Regiment.
Attack along the lines Miljevci - Promina, Skradin - Plastovo - Tomasovića Stanovi
and Dragišići - Brbir was entrusted to Operational Group Šibenik, which comprised
168 As an addition to the foregoing, General R. Rakić observed: «In the military-police Operation Storm ZP
Split had two front-lines: 1) from the Velebit range to Mount Dinara (more precisely, to Bosansko Grahovo)
- and all its units were to attack and liberate the hitherto occupied region of Northern Dalmatia (territory
of the Republic of Croatia up to the border with neighbouring Bosnia&Herzegovina); 2) the front-line from
Bosansko Grahovo to Kupreška Vrata (about 100 km) was operationally subordinated, and all the HV and
HVO units in the area were engaged in active defence, protecting the rear of HV units advancing towards
Knin. Th e ZP Split IZM for Operation Storm was in the village of Sajković (Livanjsko Polje), and it controlled
off ensive and defensive units. Th e attacking forces were controlled by the commands of the operational
groups Sjever (village of Sajković), Sinj (Sinj), Šibenik (Šibenik) and Zadar (village of Poličnik). It should be
noted that the ZP Split IZM in Zadar was also functional, overseeing and commanding operational groups
Zadar and Šibenik. Defence units, made up mainly of HVO formations - with the exception of the 81st
Guards Brigade at Bosansko Grahovo, were under the command of IZM ZP Tomislavgrad in the village of
Vrba near Glamoč. HMDCDR: Comments of General Rajko Rakić on the text about ZP Split in the militarypolice
operation Storm.
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