THIRD ARMY MOTOR REPAIR CENTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800250007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 18, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia DATE DISTR. 18 August 1948
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SUBJECT Third Army Motor Repair Camur
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1. The Central Military work shop of the Thirik Army in Petrovaradin is charged
with overhauling and repairing all military vehicles for the Third Army.
Similarly, each of the Yugoslav armies operates an identical repair shop
usually located in the same town where headquarters is located.
2. There are 80 civilians, 20 German prisoners of war (all mechanics), and,
20 Yugoslav enlisted men at the shop. Captain Vitomir Milicevie, graduate o
a technical school, is in charge of the repair center.
3. The central shop at Fetroyrradin is con-nosed of:
Vulcanizing shop
Electrical shop
Engine shop
Tinsmith shop
Carpenter shop
Paint shop
Locksmith shoe
Spare parts store
Machine shop
tool store
Mechanical workshop
Foundry
Large?slTe park for parking
Offices
4. trithin the shop cor^nound there are 200 motor vehicles captured in Slovenia
from the Germans. These vehicles Are repaired only when there is no current
fork to be done on regular Army vehicles. There are Germ'in Mercedes-Benz,
Mn,;irus and Man vehicles, American Dodges and Fords, Italian Fiats, Lancias,
and Alfa Romeos, and Czech Praga and Skoda cars (who.e number have recently
been increased). There are also P. few Soviet HE vehicles in use in the Third Army.
5. The repair shop makes castings of various auto parts but is not able to
turn out an engine bloc; otherwise the shop is equipped with all necessary
machines and tools of German and American make. There are some mechanics
in this shop who were formerly workers in the Ford factory in Canada,
having returned last year to Yugoslavia from Canada.
7. There are no spare parts the Ame
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