Dušan Trifunović

General

Dušan Trifunović
Native name
Душан Трифуновић
Born(1880-03-01)1 March 1880
Svilajnac, Principality of Serbia
Died28 February 1942(1942-02-28) (aged 61)
Nuremberg, Nazi Germany
Allegiance Yugoslavia
Service / branchRoyal Yugoslav Army
RankDivisional General
Commands7th Army
Battles / warsInvasion of Yugoslavia (1941) (POW)

Dušan Trifunović (1 March 1880 – 28 February 1942) was a divisional general[a] in the Royal Yugoslav Army who commanded the 7th Army[b] during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia of April 1941 during World War II.[2] Trifunović's command consisted of one division, one divisional-strength mountain detachment, two brigade-strength mountain detachments and a brigade-strength infantry detachment.[3] The 7th Army was responsible for the defence of the northwestern border with Italy and the Third Reich.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Serbian: Diviziski General was equivalent to a United States major general.[1]
  2. ^ The Royal Yugoslav Army did not field corps, but their armies consisted of several divisions, and were therefore corps-sized.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Niehorster 2013a.
  2. ^ Loi 1978, p. 43.
  3. ^ Niehorster 2013b.
  4. ^ U.S. Army 1986, pp. 36–37.

References

Books

  • Bjelajac, Mile (2004). Generali i admirali Kraljevine Jugoslavije 1918–1941 : studija o vojnoj eliti i biografski leksikon [The Generals and Admirals of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941: A Study of the Military Elite and Biographical Lexicon] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije (Institute for the Recent History of Serbia). OCLC 607699124.
  • Loi, Salvatore (1978). Le operazioni delle unità italiane in Jugoslavia (1941–1943): narrazione, documenti [The operations of Italian units in Yugoslavia (1941–1943): narrative, documents] (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Ministero della difesa (Ministry of Defence). OCLC 9194926.
  • U.S. Army (1986) [1953]. The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941). Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. OCLC 16940402. CMH Pub 104-4. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2013.

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