MILO\u0160 RACO (RACA), son of RAJKO, born on April 21, 1913, in Mostar. A civil servant, reserve officer, and railway worker by profession. A member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1942, in the Battalion since the autumn of 1941, serving as a squad commander. He was killed in Borci near Konjic in the summer of 1942. During the Chetnik coup, he remained among the Chetniks in Bijela but continued to collaborate with the partisans in Borci. When he was discovered, he was executed by the Chetniks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His is featured on the memorial plaque for the fallen railway workers<\/a> in Mostar, erected in 1952 in Mostar and renovated by the \u017dTP Administration in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXCERPT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We ordered Raca to immediately confiscate the submachine gun from the young \u0110ogi\u0107 and hand it over to (Mladen) Balorda<\/a>. We believed that submachine guns should only be in the safe hands of Party members and SKOJ members from Mostar. Corporal Milo\u0161 Raca hesitated a bit because \u0110ogi\u0107 had been a good fighter until then, so he was considering how to execute the command. We told him to send \u0110ogi\u0107 to get some sleep, and thus the submachine gun would remain in the hands of Mladen Balorda. While Raca was hesitating on how to do it in the least painful way, \u0110ogi\u0107, armed with the submachine gun, managed to escape to the Chetniks and the same night attacked our position (…) “<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MILO\u0160 RACO (RACA), son of RAJKO, born on April 21, 1913, in Mostar. A civil servant, reserve officer, and railway worker by profession. A member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1942, in the Battalion since the autumn of 1941, serving as a squad commander. 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Until the formation of the 13th Herzegovina Brigade in May 1944, 827 fighters passed through the Battalion, and 445 of them perished, including 211 from Mostar. Of the 86 women, 43 were killed. Mostar residents also fought in many other units of the NOVJ (People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) and among the ranks of the activists of the National Liberation War in Mostar and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina... According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. There were girls and boys with different characteristics and temperaments, robust and calm, talkative and silent, recklessly brave and rational, ordinary and above-average, semi-literate and university-educated, workers and highly skilled craftsmen, high school students and university students, skilled singers and those who couldn't carry a tune, jokers and serious-minded individuals. From all our nations and religions: Muslims, Croats, Serbs, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and semi-atheists. Some were from straight from Mostar and others from the surrounding locations, from Konjic and outside Konjic.\" (Hercegovina Magazine No. 7, p. 238)\r\n\r\nGroups of new fighters arrived from Mostar every 10-15 days, and the Unit quickly grew into a solid military force. 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