Mile Mećava (Serbian Cyrillic: Миле Мећава, pronounced [mǐlě mětɕaʋa]; 1915 – June 4, 1942) was a Yugoslav Partisan and a hero from World War II.
In January 1942, Mećeva enters into the Kozara Proletarian Company, a newly formed assault unit led by Kosta Nađ and Mladen Stojanović.
Lazar Tešanović, a schoolteacher in Javorani, influenced members of the local Partisan unit to join the Chetnik side.
On 5 March, Mećava and his Kozara Proletarian Company led by Stojanović, Nađ, and Danko Mitrov (the commander of the 4th Krajina Detachment) set out for Lipovac.
[2] On 1 June 1942, the Ustaše Black Legion led by Jure Francetić attacked the Free Territory of Kozara with tanks from Dubica and Jasenovac.
[1] After the battle, Radio Free Yugoslavia repeated several times news of the heroism of the Mećava who heroically died on a hostile tank.