Roza Miletić

Roza Miletić (1934 – 22 February 2021), better known as Teta Roza was a Croatian veteran of the Croatian War of Independence known for capturing a tank and a Yugoslav pilot.

Miletić was born in Rastoke near Slunj. Her mother left her and her father was killed by the Yugoslav Partisans while serving as a Nazi collaborationist Croatian Home Guard during World War II. Her husband was an alcoholic and she had a difficult time raising her six children.

On 8 November 1991 she captured a colonel of the Yugoslav Air Force, Stevan Janjanin. Janjanin ejected from his plane that was shot down, and as he was approached by Croatian soldiers on the ground, wounded and unarmed, Miletić intervened by treating him as her prisoner of war, saving his life. She later said that her own father's war-time death influenced her to do so.

Miletić has been decorated twice, with the Homeland War Memorial Medal and the Medal for Participation in Operation "Storm".