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as 14 years old also serve in the army and are used in combat
operations. Concentration of ages is probably between l7 and
35 with company grade officers averaging around 22 and field
and general officers averaging from 25 to 30.
The First army corps with headquarters at Prekaja consists
of l7,000 men; the Second corps with headquarters at Brena, 2l,-
000 men; Third corps, headquarters at Blassenica, 14,000 men;
Fourth corps, Kordun, 24,000 men; Fifth corps, Petrovac, 22,000
men; Sixth corps, Slavonija, 19,000 men; Seventh corps, Nogtrenjska,
20,000 men; Eighth corps, Ticevo, 18,000 men; Ninth corps, Primorje,
16,000 men; Tenth corps, Zagorje, 15,000 men; Eleventh corps, Lika,
16,000 men; Voivodina command, 2l,000 men; Serbian command, 16,000
men; Macedonian command, 5,000 men; miscellaneous "cdreds", 48,000
men; total, 292,000 men.
The Partisan army is divided into companies, battalions, bri-
gades (which correspond to regiments), divisions, and army corps.
The numerical strength of a brigade may vary from 800 to approxi-
mately 2,200 men. They are just beginning to form specialist
sections of any size and standing for demolition, mechanized
equipment, etc.. They have Moslem brigades, so-called proletar-
ian battalions, Serb battalions as well as Serbs scattered
through all the armies, many Montenegrins, a number of Hungarians,
Austrians and Germans and some deserters from every group against
which they have been fighting. All the deserter needs to do in