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37th Sandzak Division

(Tridesetsedma sandžačka divizija)

History

Formed on 4 March 1944 with 3rd Proletarian, 4th Sandzak and 8th Montenegrin brigades totaling 2300 soldiers. Receiving reinforcements from Serbia by December 1944 division strength reached 9000, 10000 on 1 March 1945 and 11000 on 1 May.

Operated in Sandzak until regions liberation and moved to Bosnia where it fought in Sarajevo operation after which it was returned to Sandzak to combat remaining Chetnik formations.

Division suffered around 4000 killed and wounded while inflicting some 30000 killed, wounded or captured on the enemy.

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	duty	name	from	to
37th Division	Commander
		Žarko Vidović	25 February 1944	27 February 1945
		Čedo Drulović	27 February 1945
	Political commissar	Milo Jovičević	25 February 1944
	Chief of Staff	Rade Knežević	25 February 1944
3rd Sandzak Brigade	Commander	Halil Hadžimurtežić	25 February 1944
	Political commissar	Milija Stanišić	25 February 1944
4th Sandzak Brigade	Commander	Milan Abramović	25 February 1944
	Political commissar	Živko Zizić	25 February 1944
8th Montenegrin Brigade	Commander	Blažo Marković	25 February 1944
	Political commissar	Jokas Brajović	25 February 1944

References

• 37. NOU divizija
• 2. Udarni Korpus, Radovan Vukanovic

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