Branch Yugoslav Partisan Army | Type infantry | |
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Country Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Part of Partisan 3rd CorpsPartisan 12th CorpsPartisan 3rd Army Engagements World War II in Yugoslavia* Operation Osterei* Operation Maiglöckchen* Operation Vollmond* Operation Heiderose* Belgrade Offensive* Syrmian Front* Operation Wehrwolf (Yugoslavia) | ||
The 16th Vojvodina Division (Serbo-Croatian: Šesnaesta vojvođanska divizija) was a Yugoslav Partisan division that fought against the Germans, Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and Chetniks in occupied Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during World War II. When it was created it consisted mostly of Serbs recruited from Hungarian–occupied Bačka. As part of the Partisan 3rd Corps then Partisan 12th Corps it spent most 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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