16th Division (Yugoslav Partisans)

16th Vojvodina Division Flag of Yugoslavia (1943–1946).svg 220 Flag of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (used by the Partisans) Democratic Federal Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisan Army infantry division Partisan 3rd CorpsPartisan 12th CorpsPartisan 3rd Army World War II in Yugoslavia* Operation Osterei * Operation Maiglöckchen * Operation Vollmond * Operation Heiderose * Belgrade Offensive * Battle of Batina * Syrmian Front * Operation Wehrwolf (Yugoslavia) Danilo Lekić 16th Vojvodina Division January 1945 Partisan 3rd Army 1st Vojvodina Brigade2nd Vojvodina Brigade4th Vojvodina Brigade15th Vojvodina BrigadeArtillery Brigade The 16th Vojvodina Division (Šesnaesta vojvođanska divizija) was a Yugoslav Partisan division that fought against Nazi Germany, the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and Chetniks in occupied Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during World War II. When it was created, the 16th Vojvodina Division consisted of mostly Serbs recruited from Hungarian–occupied Bačka. It constituted the first, second, and third Vojvodinian Brigades and had about 3,000 units when it was formed.Hoare Marko Attila The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War Oxford University Press 2014 978-0-19-936531-9 Oxford By 1941, the Partisan rank-and-file was still predominantly Serbian. The Partisans initial successes included the liberation of the area that surrounded the Serbian town of Užice.Batinić Jelena Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance Cambridge University Press 2015 978-1-107-09107-8 New York 22 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. The division participated in the Seventh Offensive from March to June 1944.East European Accessions Index U.S. Government Printing Office 1953 Washington, D.C. 103 en The division's later conflict with the Chetniks, which grew into a civil war, was rooted on the dispute between the pro-Communist and the nationalist wings of the Serb rebellion. The Division also participated in the Battle of Batina (November 1944). Notes References Atanacković Žarko Druga vojvoðanska NOU brigada Second Vojvodina NOU Brigade 1978 https://znaci.org/00001/72.htm Vojnoizdavački zavod Beograd 80355858 Grujić Periša S̆esnaesta Vojvod̆anska divizija: borbena dejstva od formiranja do oslobođenja zemlje Sixteenth Vojvodina Division: Combat Activities from Forming to the Liberation of the Country 1959 Vojno delo Beograd 13108684 Lagator Špiro Četvrta vojvođanska brigada Fourth Vojvodina Brigade 1983 https://znaci.org/00001/230.htm Vojnoizdavački zavod Beograd 255495489 George Lepre Himmler's Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943–1945 Schiffer Publishing Atglen, Philadelphia 1997 0-7643-0134-9 Vasić Đorđe Savić, Sreta Prva vojvođanska brigada First Vojvodina Brigade 1979 https://znaci.org/00003/375.htm Institut za istoriju Novi Sad 441399168 Velimir Vuksic Tito's Partisans 1941-45 Osprey Publishing Oxford 2003 978-1-841766-75-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=SLix5hc4WRgC Category:Divisions of the Yugoslav Partisans Category:History of Vojvodina Category:Serbia in World War II