Veselin Misita (Serbian Cyrillic: Веселин Мисита; 19 March 1904 – 31 August 1941) was a Bosnian Serb military commander holding the rank of lieutenant colonel during World War II.^[1]

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Veselin Misita
Born	(1904-03-19)19 March 1904 Buna, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
Died	31 August 1941(1941-08-31) (aged 37) Loznica, Serbia
Allegiance	Kingdom of Yugoslavia Chetniks
Service/branch	Jadar Chetnik detachment
Years of service	1934–1941
Rank	Lieutenant colonel, Colonel (posthumously)
Battles/wars	World War II Battle of Loznica †
Awards	Order of Karađorđe's Star

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Misita is best known for leading the victorious Battle of Loznica in 1941 in which he was killed.^[2] Loznica became the first city in Europe liberated of fascists in August 1941.^[3]

Misita was killed while leading the victorious Battle of Loznica in 1941.

Josip Broz Tito's biographer Vladimir Dedijer described Misita's death as a great loss for the uprising.^[4] On 31 August 2008, the deputy speaker of the Serbian National Assembly, Božidar Delić of the Serbian Radical Party, dedicated a plaque to Misita in the Vuk Karadžić Square in Loznica.^[5] One of the people present was the man that had applied for the plaque to be installed, Božidar Panić, who had idolised Misita in his youth, and had lit a candle for him every year.^[6]

Misita is a maternal relation to Vojislav Šešelj, whose mother's maiden name was Danica Misita.^[7]