Slavko Rodić ( sr, Славко Родић; Sredice near Ključ, 7 July 1914 - Belgrade, 29 April 1949), was a Yugoslav partisan, general of

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska arm ...

and

People's Hero of Yugoslavia The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; sl, Red narodnega heroja, mk, Oрден на народен херој, Orden na ...

Prior to April War, Rodić worked as

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for

Royal Yugoslav Army The Yugoslav Army ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Jugoslovenska vojska, JV, Југословенска војска, ЈВ), commonly the Royal Yugoslav Army, was the land warfare military service branch of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (originally Kingdom of Serbs ...

in Vršac. After Yugoslav defeat, he returned to

Krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning 'frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to '' kraj'' or '' krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 ...

. There he joined local communist in their preparation for

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against

Independent State of Croatia The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...

and Axis occupation. During 1943 and 1943, he was commander of 5th Krajina Division, and then 5th Bosnian Corps. He was promoted to

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in 1943, at age 27, thus becoming the youngest general of People's Liberation Army. After death of General Arso Jovanović in 1948 was promoted to deputy chief of staff of Yugoslav Army HQ. However, he too died soon, on 29 April 1949.

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