Milutin Morača

Milutin Morača (Serbian: Милутин Морача; 7 July 1914 – 17 December 2003) was a Yugoslav partisan, general of Yugoslav People's Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Prior to World War II, his family settled in village Žednik near Subotica, where Milutin, as law student, joined then the illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

After Yugoslav defeat in the April War, he was captured by the Hungarian army, but he was soon released and, as a colonist, he was to forced return to his birth area.

There he joined local communists in their preparation for the uprising against the Independent State of Croatia and Axis occupation.

He was appointed Chief of Staff of the First Army of the NOVJ in 1945, and during the breakthrough of the Syrmian Front, he directly commanded the Northern Group of Divisions.