On this day 29 years ago, Izet Nanić passed into heroic eternity: A general respected even by his enemies!

(Patria) - On this day 29 years ago, on August 5, 1995, at the age of 30, Izet Nanić, a general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, commander from Bužim and hero of the liberation war, was killed.

Nanić was the commander of the 505th Bužim Knight Brigade of the 5th Corps of the Army of RBiH. Units of the 5th Corps, simultaneously with "Operation Storm" in Croatia, began actions to liberate territory. The Bužim 505th Knight Brigade, led by Izet Nanić, broke through enemy lines at Čorkovaća and advanced towards Dvor na Uni. Just a few hours before the final breakthrough in the Vijenac area, commander Izet Nanić was killed in an ambush.

- Halfway to the command post where a scattered group of Chetniks was being transferred, a meeting engagement occurred, and the commander was killed while firing his rifle. He had already emptied one magazine and was replacing it with another... - said Sead Jusić, the last commander of the 505th Knight Brigade, reports Faktor

Izet Nanić, son of Rasima and Ibrahim, was born on October 4, 1965, in Bužim. He was the second of their seven sons. After primary school, Izet Nanić completed the Secondary Military School in Zagreb. He enrolled in the Military Academy in 1984 in Belgrade (Air Force and Air Defense branch). He spent one year in Sarajevo, finally completing his military education in Zagreb in 1987.

Until 1992, he served as an active military officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). At the beginning of the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, he became the commander of one of the most successful brigades of the Army of BiH - the Bužim 505th Knight Brigade.
For his wartime merits, Brigadier General Izet Nanić was awarded the Golden Lily in 1994, and posthumously (1998) the Order of the Hero of the Liberation War.

The Bužim 505th Knight Brigade, under the command of Izet Nanić, never lost a single millimeter of territory in its area of responsibility, and liberated more than 300 square kilometers of occupied territory of our country.