The fourth front was Northern Dalmatia and Lika (roughly corresponding to what is marked as
Šibenska, Zadarsko-kninska and
Lička on this map). There too the Serbo-Yugoslav Army took the whole hinterland, in which there was Serb population in a certain percentage (but it
was not a purely Serbian area). By means of destroying villages, expulsions and massacres (
Škabrnja massacre being one of the most publicized ones) the area was ethnically cleansed. But here again the Yugoslav army did not manage to occupy cities, some of them, like Šibenik,
yielded a fierce resitsance and repelled the aggressor. Nevertheless, here too there was indiscriminate shelling of cities as a result of which many people were killed in them (Zadar, Skradin, Biograd itd). However, most of the cities were not destroyed, but suffered only limited damage. The exception was the town of Gospić, whose occupation the Serb-Yugoslav forces saw as necessary i order to cut Croatia in two.
Gospić was almost entirely destroyed by shelling, but - unlike Vukovar - did not fall to the enemy.
The whole area was liberated as result of the
Operation Storm.