Petar Babić ( Serb. Petar Babiћ ; November 1, 1919 , Tiskovac Licki - October 31, 2006 , Belgrade ) - Yugoslav military commander, colonel general of the UNA, SFRY ambassador to Canada. The national hero of Yugoslavia.
| Petar Babich | ||||||||||
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| Serb. Petar Babiћ | ||||||||||
 Petar Babich during the war | ||||||||||
| Nickname | Pepa | |||||||||
| Date of Birth | November 1, 1919 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tiskovac Lichki , near Doni Lapac , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | |||||||||
| Date of death | October 31, 2006 (86 years old) | |||||||||
| A place of death | Belgrade , Serbia | |||||||||
| Affiliation |  Yugoslavia | |||||||||
| Type of army |  Yugoslav People's Army : Ground Forces | |||||||||
| Years of service | 1941-1979 | |||||||||
| Rank | Colonel General | |||||||||
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| Battles / wars | April war , the people 's liberation war of Yugoslavia | |||||||||
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| Retired | Secretary of the People’s Defense Council, Ambassador of the SFRY in Canada, Chairman of the Yugoslav Military Industry Association | |||||||||
Biography
Born on November 1, 1919 in the town of Tiskovac Licki (now Bosnia and Herzegovina ) with Donji Lapts. Parents: Stevan and Rada Babichi. He graduated from three classes of a secondary school in Drvar, later got a job as a foreman at a machine-building plant. In 1936 he joined the Union of Workers' Syndicates in Drvar, in 1937 - the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia . Held military service in the Yugoslav royal army in Karlovac and Zagreb.
Petar met the April war as part of the royal army. He escaped captivity and fled to his native village, where he led armed resistance. He participated in the organization of partisan cells in Lika . At the end of November 1941 he was appointed political instructor in a platoon at the battalion named after Marko Oreshkovich (later became a company political officer). Since January 1942, a member of the CPY . From April 1942 he was deputy political officer at the 2nd Lyc proletarian shock brigade, from February to May 1943 he held a similar position already in the 3rd Lyc brigade, from May 1943 - political instructor of the headquarters of the Kninsky operational sector, from autumn 1943 until end of the war - political instructor of the 19th North Dalmatian division.
After the war, Babich continued to serve in the Yugoslav People's Army, rising to the rank of colonel general. He received higher military education not only at the Higher Military Academy of the JNA, but also at the General Staff School in the United States from 1956 to 1957. Higher political education - in the party school named after Dzhuro Dzhakovich . He commanded the 1st Panzer Division and Panzer Corps, taught tactics at the Higher Military Academy of the JNA, served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources of the JNA, Head of the Cabinet of Marshal Josip Broz Tito , Secretary of the People’s Defense Council of Yugoslavia and Assistant to the Allied Secretary for the Military Economy. From 1972 to 1976, the Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Canada, since 1976, Chairman of the Association of the Military Industry of Yugoslavia. Retired since 1979.
He was awarded a number of orders and medals: the Order of the Military Flag, the Order of Brotherhood and Unity (Golden Star), the Order for Courage, the Partisan Memory Medal and the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia (decree of November 27, 1953 ).
Petar Babić died on October 31, 2006 in Belgrade, on November 4 he was buried on the Alley of Popular Heroes in the New Cemetery.
Literature
- War encyclopedia (kiga prva) , Beograd 1970. Godina
- “Folk Heroes of Yugoslavia”. Beograd: Mladost. 1975.