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Incorrect. Mihailovic (specifically his small group in Serbia proper and not those west of the Drina River) didn't begin to openly collaborate until much later in the war. The Germans naturally viewed him as in irritant up until that point, which is why he was a wanted man.

But that all changed once he began openly collaborating.

His followers west of the Drina River and in Montenegro began open collaboration much sooner, many from the summer of 1941.

"Incorrect. Mihailovic (specifically his small group in Serbia proper and not those west of the Drina River) didn't begin to openly collaborate until much later in the war."

I shouldn't even be here, except that you are pissing me off, Dio.

Mihailovic helped rescue the American Airmen in late 1944, and the Germans wanted the Americans as badly as they wanted Mihailovic, but Mihailovic wouldn't turn them over. The Germans burned a Serbian village with the inhabitants in it in retaliation for not handing over the Americans. Anyone interested in the subject should read "The Forgotten 500" by Gregory Freeman.

Seems to me, Dio, that you are only to happy to regurgitate Tito communist propaganda, like this "Mihailovic was a collaborator" nonsense when it suits your aims, but label anything you don't like as "communist propaganda" or "Serbian propaganda" when you are losing an argument. Grow the hell up!

Chronology without dates is what U peddle.

The date of the Mihailovic-Tito WANTED poster is 21 July 1943.

Operation Halyard q.v. - From 9-10 August 1944 the first rescue of Allied airmen, was executed by Mihailovic and the OSS. Rescued fliers were 241 USAAF, 6 RAF, 12 Russians, 4 French, 9 Italians. Subsequent rescue missions were conducted by Mihailovic’s Chetniks and OSS under the nose of the Germans in occupied Serbia (Pranjani) from an airstrip improvised on a cow pasture. Operation Halyard was shut down by the OSS on 27 December 1944. The Red Army was already in Belgrade.

In an operation lasting from 14 September to 24 November 1944, the Soviet Army and Partisans expelled the Germans from Belgrade.

In the ranks of the Soviet forces were Croatian Nazis captured at Stalingrad in 1943. The heroes wore snazzy new uniforms and traveled on new GMC trucks suppied by the USA to the USSR. Tito did not de-Nazify his Yugoslavia. Croatia’s Nazis simply put on the Red Star until the time was ripe, with re-unified Germany (1989), to scuttle — again — Yugoslavia, the lifeboat that had saved their sorry butts after both world wars.

Mihailovic was captured by Tito forces in Eastern Bosnia in March 1946. Unlike Croatia’s heroes he didn’t flee to Austria and Germany, like U Nazi Croats did.
— A collaborator would have.

His followers west of the Drina River...began open collaboration much sooner, many from the summer of 1941.

Where are you getting this idea from?

How many is many, Dio?

In short, you're embellishing.