(1925- )
Yugoslav partisan. Danica Milosavljevic was born in 1925 near Uzice, Yugoslavia. Her father wanted all of his children, even his two daughters, to receive an education. Influenced by the oppression of women in Yugoslav peasant society, Milosavljevic joined the Communist Youth Movement in secondary school. By the time the Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, she was a member of the Communist party. Milosavljevic, who had taken a basic medical course offered by the party youth group before the war, was sent to a partisan detachment near Uzice and given ten days of additional training as a nurse. She served as a nurse for six months before directly appealing to Tito to be allowed to fight. The party leadership did not want her to become a soldier, but she prevailed. By the end of the war she was promoted to second lieutenant and was commander of the First Battalion of the Second Proletarian Brigade. Following the war she was proclaimed a National Hero by the Yugoslav Communist government.
