Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines
The Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines was campaign of Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland (commonly known as Chetniks) sabotage of Axis communication lines, mostly along the rivers Morava, Vardar and Danube, to obstruct transport of German war material through Serbia to Thessaloniki and further to Libya during Western Desert campaign. The Chetnik sabotages were organized since 31 April, or according to some sources since July or early August 1942.

After initial support to Mihailovićs Chetniks tactics used against Axis forces in Serbia, since the closing of Summer 1942 the British started to believe that such actions were not enough. On the other hand, the German command decided that such actions were enough for them to make decision to annihilate Chetniks.

During the period, in which these events took place, the Chetnik command was embedded with a members of the British mission, Edgar Hargreeves and Jasper Rootem.
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Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland
ORG
Q43056
Axis
Concept
Q179251
Morava
LOC
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Vardar
LOC
Q1653
Danube
LOC
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Western Desert campaign
EVE
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Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines
Concept
1942-08-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
August 1942
DATE
1942-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1942
DATE
+31^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
31
NUMBER
point in time
mouth of the watercourse