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12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans)

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Active
  
1944–1945

Type
  
Infantry

Part of
  
3rd Army

Branch
  
Yugoslav Partisan Army

Size
  
Corps

12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans)

Country
  
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

The 12th Corps (Serbo-Croatian: 12. Korpus) was a corps of the Yugoslav Partisans that fought against the Germans, Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and Chetniks in occupied Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during World War II. It was formed on 1 July 1944 with the 16th Vojvodina Division and 36th Vojvodina Division and subsequently took the 51st Vojvodina Division under command. It was subordinated to the Partisan 3rd Army on 1 January 1945. The 12th Corps spent the latter half of 1944 engaged in hard fighting against the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) in eastern Bosnia.

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12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans) Wikipedia