Dinara Division The Dinara Division ( ) was a Chetnik division that existed during World War II . Organized in 1942 with large help from Ilija Trifunović - Birčanin and headed by Momčilo Đujić , the division incorporated commanders in Bosnia and Herzegovina , northern Dalmatia , and the Lika region with the intent of establishing a purely Serb state cleansed of other nationalities . The division was under the control of supreme Chetnik commander Draža Mihailović and received aid from Dimitrije Ljotić , leader of the Serbian Volunteer Corps , and Milan Nedić , head of the Serbian puppet Government of National Salvation . Formation and objectives . The division was formed in early January 1942 after Momčilo Đujić was contacted by Draža Mihailović via a courier . Ilija Trifunović - Birčanin played a central role in organizing the units of Chetnik leaders in western Bosnia , Lika , and northern Dalmatia into the Dinara Division and dispatched former Yugoslav Army officers to help . Đujić was designated the commander of the division and its goal was for the " establishment of a Serb national state " in which " an exclusively Orthodox population is to live " . According to Đujić : " We were under Draža ' s command , but we received news and supplies for our struggle from [ Dimitrije ] Ljotić and [ Milan ] Nedić . [ . . . ] Nedić ' s couriers reached me in Dinara and mine reached him in Belgrade . He sent me military uniforms for the guardists of the Dinara Chetnik Division ; he sent me ten million dinars to obtain for the fighters whatever was needed and whatever could be obtained . " In March 1942 the division prepared a programmatic statement that concerned the " specific conditions of Bosnia and Herzegovina , northern Dalmatia , and southwestern Croatia ( Lika ) " . The statement was accepted by commanders of these areas during a conference at Strmica near Knin a month later . The statement echoed the tone of Mihailović ' s instructions issued in December 1941 to Chetnik commanders Major Đorđije Lašić and Captain Pavle Đurišić in pursuing a Greater Serbia that was to be inhabited solely by Serbs , the establishment of a corridor through the linkage of the territories Herzegovina , northern Dalmatia , Bosnia , and Lika to Slovenia ; the mobilization of all Serb nationalists for the ethnic cleansing of other nationalities that existed in Herzegovina , Dalmatia , Bosnia , and Lika . It also elaborated on the division ' s wartime strategy : " collaboration with the Italians on a live - and - let - live principle , determined struggle against Ustaša formations and the Domobrans , as well as against the Partisans ; decent treatment of the Muslims — for the time being , to keep them from joining the Partisans , though later they can be eliminated ; and the formation of separate Croatian Chetnik units for pro - Yugoslav , anti - Partisan Croats . " Decline and retreat to the Adriatic Littoral . During early February 1943 , as the Partisans began to prevail over the Chetniks as part of Case White , Đujić and Petar Baćović attempted to mount a counteroffensive around Bosansko Grahovo in western Bosnia preliminary to re - capturing Drvar . This was opposed by the Germans and made no headway . By early August , the Dinara Division was " poorly formed , badly armed and disciplined " , lacked accurate rolls of its members , and consisted of no more than 3 , 000 effectives . Lieutenant Colonel Mladen Žujević , one of Mihailović ' s few remaining delegates in the area , concluded that the division was " a pure figment of the imagination " . On 21 December 1944 , after Đujić requested a written guarantee from Ante Pavelić to afford him and his forces refuge in German - occupied Slovenia , Pavelić ordered the military forces of the Independent State of Croatia to give Đujić ' s division was given free passage . However , Đujić went through an alternate route towards the Istrian peninsula , as the routes offered by Pavelić were not secure from Partisan attacks , and killed the Croatian population along the way . When Đujić reached Slovenia , his forces joined Dobroslav Jevđević ' s Chetniks , Dimitrije Ljotić ' s Serbian Volunteer Corps , and the remnants of Milan Nedić ' s Serbian Shock Corps in forming a single unit that was under the command of Odilo Globocnik of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Adriatic Littoral .