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Strength of Yugoslav partisans

(NOV & POJ) 1941-44

  Late 1941 Late 1942 September 1943 Late 1943 Late 1944
Bosnia & Herzegovina 20000 60000 89000 108000 100000
Croatia 7000 48000 78000 122000 150000
Kosovo 5000 6000 6000 7000 20000
Macedonia 1000 2000 10000 7000 66000
Montenegro 22000 6000 10000 24000 30000
Serbia (proper) 23000 8000 13000 22000 204000
Slovenia 1000 19000 21000 25000 40000
Vojvodina 1000 1000 3000 5000 40000
Total 80000 150000 230000 320000 650000
  • Jugoslavija 1941-1945, Vlado Strugar, Beograd: Vojnoizdavački zavod, 1969; Narodnooslobodilačka vojska Jugoslavije, Nikola Anić, Sekula Joksimović i Mirko Gutić, Beograd: Vojnoistorijski institut, 1982.

Croatia - Late 1944
around 150,000 fighters

Unit type

Fighters

Nationality

Operational units (brigades, divisions, corps) 100740 60703 Croats
24528 Serbs
5113 Slovenians
3593 Muslims
525 Montenegrins
2733 Italians
947 Russians
314 Germans
271 Poles
1353 Czechs and Slovaks
171 Jews
270 Hungarians
74 Ukrainians
145 others
Rear area units around 40000  
KNOJ division 10000+  
NOVJ Navy 13719  
  • Putevim Glavnog Å¡taba Hrvatske, Zagreb 1976.

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