12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans)

January 2013 12th Corps Flag of Yugoslavia (1943–1946).svg 220 Flag of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (used by the Partisans) 1944–1945 Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisan Army Infantry Corps 3rd Army World War II in Yugoslavia* Operation Heiderose * Operation Hackfleisch* Battle of Batina * Belgrade Offensive 28 March 1945 Danilo Lekić 12th Corps January 1945 3rd Army 16th Vojvodina Division36th Vojvodina Division The 12th Corps (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. The Corps also participated in the Belgrade Offensive (October 1944) and Battle of Batina (November 1944). Notes 2 References George Lepre Himmler's Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943–1945 Schiffer Publishing Atglen, Philadelphia 1997 0-7643-0134-9 Velimir Vuksic Tito's Partisans 1941-45 Osprey Publishing Oxford 2003 1-841766-75-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=SLix5hc4WRgC June 2017 Category:Corps of the Yugoslav Partisans Category:Military units and formations established in 1944 Category:History of Vojvodina Category:Serbia in World War II