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.[1] By 1941, the Partisan rank-and-file was still predominantly Serbian.[1] The Partisans initial successes included the liberation of the area that surrounded the Serbian town of Užice.[2]
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.[1]
The Division also participated in the Battle of Batina (November 1944).
Notes
^ abcHoare, Marko Attila (2014). The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-936531-9.
^Batinić, Jelena (2015). Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 22. ISBN978-1-107-09107-8.
^East European Accessions Index. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1953. p. 103.
Grujić, Periša (1959). S̆esnaesta Vojvod̆anska divizija: borbena dejstva od formiranja do oslobođenja zemlje [Sixteenth Vojvodina Division: Combat Activities from Forming to the Liberation of the Country]. Beograd: Vojno delo. OCLC13108684.
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