During the Uprising in Montenegro against the Italian occupation, together with four children - two sons and two daughters, at the age of 69, he entered the fight. He stood out as an old warrior in the fall of 1941, when, after the uprising subsided, he joined the Yugoslav Partisans along with his two sons. From the end of 1942, he was an advisor to the commander of the Third Strike Division, as well as a councilor at the First Session of AVNOJ and a member of ZAVNO of Montenegro and Boka. He was admitted to the membership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in September 1943. The writer Vladimir Nazor called him the oldest Yugoslav Partisan.