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Pavle Đurišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Ђуришић; July 9, 1907 - April 21, 1945) was a Chetnik commander and vojvoda. He was a Serbian Chetnik fighting communist and Nazi forces during WWII. He helped save American Airmen shot down during WWII as chronicled in the '"Forgotten 500"' Novel. See: Media:http://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/Павле_Ђуришић

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Pavle Đurišić lead most of the Chetniks of Montenegro during World War II. He was a member of the Vasojevic clan's of Montenegro. Draza Mihailovic Mihailović's Chetniks had been known as the first resistance guerilla fighters against the Nazis and other Fascist/Axis forces occupying the Balkans at the time, Đurišić made a move in which his Chetniks in Montenegro grouped up in March 1945 and attacked the Croatian Ustaša Nazi fascists in Lijevce Polje near Banja Luka

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