 Bursać became a Partisan in February 1943 , joining the newly formed 10th Krajina Brigade . With the brigade , she fought in the Grahovo , Knin , Vrlika and Livno areas and served as a nurse . In September 1943 , Bursać was wounded in the leg while throwing hand grenades during an attack on the German base at Prkosi in northwestern Bosnia . As she was being transported to a field hospital at Vidovo Selo , she sang Partisan songs . Bursać 's wound soon developed gangrene , and she died at the hospital on 23 September 1943 . She was proclaimed a People 's Hero of Yugoslavia the following month . Schools , streets and organisations were named in her memory following the war , commemorating her service to the Partisan cause . 
