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38th Division (Yugoslav Partisans)

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38th Bosnia Division
Flag of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (used by the Partisans)
Active1944–1945
CountryDemocratic Federal Yugoslavia
BranchYugoslav Partisan Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
Part ofPartisan 3rd Corps
Partisan 2nd Army
EngagementsWorld War II in Yugoslavia
* Operation Hackfleisch

The 38th Bosnia Division (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Tridesetosma bosanska divizija) was a Yugoslav Partisan division that fought against the Germans, Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and Chetniks in occupied Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during World War II. As part of the Partisan 3rd Corps it spent the latter half of 1944 engaged in hard fighting against the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) in eastern Bosnia.

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