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Blue Division (disambiguation)

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Blue Division may refer to one of the following:

  • Blue Division (Second French Empire), the nickname given to the first naval division, formed in 1870, merging the naval artillery and naval infantry
  • Blue Division, a unit of Spanish volunteers that served on the German side of the Second World War, mainly on the Eastern Front
  • Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War), Irish fascist volunteers who fought on the Falangist side in the Spanish Civil War and nicknamed the Blue Division
  • 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division, a volunteer division in Wehrmacht during World War Two recruited from the Independent State of Croatia, nicknamed the Blue Division by its men