Veselin Misita
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{{Infobox military person
|name = Veselin Misita
|birth_date = {{birth date|1904|03|19|df=yes}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1941|08|31|1904|03|19|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Buna, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
|death_place = Loznica, Serbia
|image = Veselin Misita, leader of Jadar Chetniks.jpg
|allegiance = {{flag|Kingdom of Yugoslavia}}
{{flagicon image|Chetniks Flag.svg}} Chetniks
|serviceyears = 1934–1941
|rank = Lieutenant colonel,
Colonel (posthumously)
|branch = Jadar Chetnik detachment
|commands =
|unit =
|battles = {{tree list}}
- World War II
- {{Tree list/final branch}}Battle of Loznica{{KIA}}
{{tree list/end}}
|awards = Order of Karađorđe's Star
}}
Veselin Misita (Serbian Cyrillic: Веселин Мисита; 19 March 1904 – 31 August 1941) was a Serb military commander holding the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Yugoslav Army during World War II.Trbojević, D. Cersko-majevička grupa korpusa pukovnika Dragoslava Račića (2001). {{page needed|date=June 2015}}
Misita is best known for leading the victorious Battle of Loznica in 1941 in which he was killed.{{cite book|last=Šnuderl|first=Makso|title=Dnevnik 1941-1945: V partizanih|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lM2xAAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Založba Obzorja|isbn=978-86-377-0739-4|page=152|quote=Bil je zavzet. Žrtve napadalcev so bile občutne. Nemci so se izvlekli, no sam Misita je padel. Dalje so zavzeli Banjo Kobiljačo, ...}} Loznica became the first city in Europe liberated of fascists in August 1941. [http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/275028/Decenijama-palio-svecu-zaboravljenom-heroju Blic, Decenijama palio sveću zaboravljenom heroju], blic.rs; accessed 24 October 2016.
Death and legacy
Misita was killed while leading the victorious Battle of Loznica in 1941.
Josip Broz Tito's biographer Vladimir Dedijer described Misita's death as a great loss for the uprising.{{sfn|Dedijer|1990|p=491}} On 31 August 2008, the deputy speaker of the Serbian National Assembly, Božidar Delić of the Serbian Radical Party, dedicated a plaque to Misita in the Vuk Karadžić Square in Loznica.{{sfn|Vesti|31 August 2008}} One of the people present was the man that had applied for the plaque to be installed, Božidar Panić, who had idolised Misita in his youth, and had lit a candle for him every year.{{sfn|Pajić|4 September 2011}}
Misita is a maternal relation to Vojislav Šešelj, whose mother's maiden name was Danica Misita.{{cite web |url=https://vesti-online.com/licnost-nedelje/4/Vojislav-Seselj |author=Vesti |title=Ličnost nedelje: Vojislav Šešelj |accessdate=2018-12-22 |date=2014-11-09 |language=Serbian}}
References
=Citations=
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|last=Dedijer|first=Vladimir|title=From November 28, 1942, to September 10, 1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl3hAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-10109-2}}
External links
- {{cite news|url=http://www.pressonline.rs/sr/vesti/vesti_dana/story/45861/Otkrivena%2Bspomen-plo%C4%8Da%2Bpotpukovniku%2BMisiti.html |title=Otkrivena spomen-ploča potpukovniku Misiti|publisher=pressonline.rs |date=31 August 2008 |accessdate=22 September 2024 |archive-date=3 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203002653/http://www.pressonline.rs/sr/vesti/vesti_dana/story/45861/Otkrivena+spomen-plo%C4%8Da+potpukovniku+Misiti.html |url-status=dead}}
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Category:People from the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category:Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category:Royal Yugoslav Army personnel of World War II
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