Bravo Christian!!!! #1 and #3 are correct but he was not one of the first people to recieve the national hero award the first people to get the narodni heroj were: Bosko Karalic, Stojan Grujicic, Filip Kljajic - Fico, Slavisa Weiner, Milan Ilic, Ratko Mitrovic, Rifat Burdzevic, Vladimir Knezevic, Miso Dudic, Dusan Jerkovic and Ivan Haris The top generals usually only got the National Hero title at the end of the war or even many years later (like Koca who got his only the 27th of November 1953). The first people to get it were mostly of lower ranks, an example of this is that only two of the first 11 to get it are officers one a lieutenant and one a colonel Another important thing to know about Koca is that he was the foreign minister of SFRY for 12 years and after that vice-president of the country, the first is much more important because he was the architect of Yugoslavia's foreign policy after the comintern split. He was also one of the recipients of the Order of Freedom (thats not the answer to number #2) Ivan P.S. If you guys want me to reveal the answer to number 2 please say and I'll be glad to oblige. Here is the english wiki link btw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C4%8Da_Popovi%C4%87