List of Croatian military equipment of World War II

The Independent State of Croatia was established by Germany and Italy 10 April 1941 after the Yugoslavia has fallen to axis forces. The Croatian state has managed to survive until January 1945, than the Soviet offense pushed Axis-supporting Croatians to Austria. The list below cover military equipment of Croatia Axis supporters (Croatian Home Guard, Ustaše militia and Croatian Armed Forces) in period 1941–1945, but do not include the equipment of the pro-Allies partisans. Also, the equipment of German-controlled units comprising a large fraction of ethic Croatians (373rd, 392nd and 369th infantry divisions) is excluded from this list.

Knives and bayonets

Small arms

Pistols (manual and semi-automatic)

Automatic pistols and submachine guns

Rifles

Grenades and grenade launchers

Machine guns

Infantry and dual-purpose machine guns

Artillery

Infantry mortars

Field artillery

Fortress and siege guns

Anti-tank guns

Anti-tank weapons (besides anti-tank guns)

Anti-aircraft weapons

Light anti-aircraft guns

Heavy anti-aircraft guns

Vehicles

Tankettes

  • TKS - 18 received 10 October 1941
  • L3/33 - 10 received from Hungary in autumn 1942
  • L3/33 - 30 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
  • L3/35 - imported from Italy

Tanks

Tank-based

  • Semovente da 47/32 - 10 received from Germany in May 1944
  • StuG III Ausf. G - 8 received from Germany in August 1944

Other

Armored cars

  • Autoblindo 41 - 10 received from Germany after being captured from Italians in the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile 8 September 1943
  • Sd. Kfz. 221 - 12 received from Germany

Armored carriers

  • Sd.Kfz. 251 - 12 to 15 vehicles received in middle 1944

Trucks

Passenger cars

Motorcycles

Tractors and prime movers

  • C2P artillery tractor (unarmoured design based on TKS)

Croatian Navy was restricted until September, 1943 to do not have any vessel over 50 tons displacement. Therefore, the Navy was limited to coastal patrol crafts.

Aircraft

Initial batch (1941)

Reinforcements (1942)

Frontline reinforcements (1943)

Last reinforcements (1944-1945)

Cartridges and shells

References

  1. "Schneider-Canet 120mm M1915 howitzer". Archived from the original on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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