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36th Division (Yugoslav Partisans)

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Active
  
1944–1945

Type
  
Infantry

Branch
  
Yugoslav Partisan Army

Size
  
Division

36th Division (Yugoslav Partisans)

Country
  
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia

Part of
  
Partisan 3rd Corps Partisan 12th Corps Partisan 3rd Army

The 36th Vojvodina Division (Serbo-Croatian: Tridesetšesta 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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36th Division (Yugoslav Partisans) Wikipedia