Capture of Olovo (1941)

Capture of Olovo
	Part of World War II in Yugoslavia
	; Olovo in 1963
Date	1 November — 17 December 1941
Location	Olovo, Independent State of Croatia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina)44°04′N 18°20′E / 44.07°N 18.34°E
Result	Chetnik-Partisan victory Chetniks and Partisans captured Olovo;
Belligerents
Independent State of Croatia	Chetniks; Yugoslav Partisans
Commanders and leaders
Mihajlo Lukić Janko Sreharski Ante Marinković; ; ;	Radovan Trivun; ;
Units involved
Croatian Home Guard - 2 companies: the 4th company of Sarajevo Reserve Battalion; the 17th company of the 6th Infantry Regiment; ; 180 Muslim militiamen; 40 gendarmes; a battery of mountain guns;	4 Chetnik companies; parts of Partisan Romanija Detachment Knežina company; Bjelogoračka company; Crepoljska company; ; parts of Partisan Zvijezda Detachment Nišić battalion; Crnovrška company; Vlahinjska company; ;
Strength
250 Croatian Home Guard members; 220 militiamen; 2 mountain guns; 2 machine guns;	400 Chetniks; Battery of unknown guns; 800 Partisans;
Casualties and losses
13 Croatian Home Guards and 26 militiamen killed; 9 Croatian Home Guards and 30 militiamen wounded; 21 Croatian Home Guards imprisoned; 17 Croatian Home Guards and 45 militiamen missing;	At least 240 Chetniks according to Croatian sources
	Civilian victims of terror:
	Olovo class=notpageimage\| Location of Olovo in the eastern NDH Olovo Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The Capture of Olovo (1 November — 17 December 1941) was a battle fought between allied forces of Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army (Chetniks) and Yugoslav Partisans against Axis forces of the Independent State of Croatia garrisoned in Olovo in the first year of World War II in Yugoslavia.

^ (Institut 1953, p. 242): "pričao je istoj lično četnik to je njihov vođa Radovan Trivun iz Belih Voda,..."