In military terms, 13th Division or 13th Infantry Division may refer to:

Infantry divisions

13th Division (People's Republic of China) The 13th Division () was created in January 1950 under ''the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army'', issued by Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948,《中央军委关于统一全军组织及部� ...

13th Division (German Empire) The 13th Division (''13. Division'') was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in November 1816 in Münster in Westphalia as a troop brigade and became the 13th Division on September 5, 1818. The division was subordinated in peacetime ...

13th Reserve Division (German Empire) The 13th Reserve Division (''13. Reserve-Division'') was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed on the mobilization of the German Army in August 1914. The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilizati ...

13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) The 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS ''Handschar'' (1st Croatian) was a Gebirgsjäger, mountain infantry Division (military), division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formall ...

, a German unit in WWII *

13th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr) The 13th Panzergrenadier Division (''13. Panzergrenadierdivision'') was a mechanized division of the German Army. Its staff was based at Leipzig. The division was a unit of the German Army's stabilization forces and specialized on Low intensity co ...

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13th Infantry Division (Greece) The 13th Infantry Division ( el, XIII Μεραρχία Πεζικού, XIII ΜΠ; ''XIII Merarchia Pezikou'', ''XIII MP'') was an infantry division of the Hellenic Army. The 13th Infantry Division was established in December 1913, during the reor ...

* 13th Infantry Division "Re", a unit of the Royal Italian Army *

13th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its tsūshōgō code name was the , and its military symbol was 13D. The 13th Division was one of four new infantry divisions raised by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) in the closi ...

13th Division (North Korea) The 13th Infantry Division was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century. It participated in the North Korean advance from Seoul to Daejeon. The division fought in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter The Battle of th ...

13th Infantry Division (Poland) {{unreferenced, date=August 2009 13th Kresy Infantry Division (Polish: ''13 Kresowa Dywizja Piechoty'' french: 13e Division d'Infanterie de Kresy) was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period. Its origins go back to the World War I, when ...

13th Guards Rifle Division The 13th Guards Poltava Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army that was highly decorated during World War II. Formed in January 1942 from the 87th Rifle Division ...

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13th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) The 13th Rifle Division was a military formation of the Red Army from 1922 to 1945. serving in World War II. It was disbanded after being defeated in 1941 and reformed from a Leningrad people's militia division later that year. The division was for ...

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13th Division (Syrian rebel group) The 13th Division ( ar, الفرقة 13) is a Syrian rebel group sanctioned by the Syrian National Council. It was among the first armed Syrian opposition groups to receive U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles. The group's leader lieutenant ...

13th (Western) Division The 13th (Western) Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions in the First World War, raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener. It fought at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia (including the capture of Baghdad) and Persia. War service 1914– ...

, United Kingdom *

13th Division (United States) The 13th Division was an infantry division of the United States Army. It was established at Camp Lewis, Washington, in 1918, during World War I. The war ended before the division saw combat, and it was inactivated in 1919. Creation The 13th Divis ...

Airborne divisions

13th Guards Airborne Division The 13th Guards Airborne Division was a division of the Soviet Airborne Troops. Its first formation was formed in December 1943 from airborne brigades and was quickly redesignated the 98th Guards Rifle Division without seeing combat in World War I ...

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13th Airborne Division (United States) The 13th Airborne Division was an airborne forces formation of division-size of the United States Army that was active during World War II. The division was commanded for most of its existence by Major General Elbridge G. Chapman.Flanagan, ...

Armoured divisions

13th Armored Division (United States) The 13th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. History and combat chronicle The division was activated on 15 October 1942 at Camp Beale, east of Marysville, California. The 13th Armored, known as t ...

13th Tank Division (People's Republic of China) The 13th Tank Division () was formed in Taian, Shandong province, on December 3, 1969, from the Independent Tank Regiment of Fuzhou Military Region, 3rd Independent Tank Regiment of Jinan Military Region. By then, the division was composed of: ...

13th Tank Division (Czechoslovakia) The 13th Tank Division (, ) was an armored division of the Czechoslovak People's Army during the Cold War that became part of the Army of the Slovak Republic after the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. History The 13th Tank Division was formed ...

13th Guards Tank Division In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the note thirteen scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the thirteenth. The interval can be also described as a compound sixth, spanning an octave pl ...

, Soviet Union *

13th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) The 13th Panzer Division ( en, 13th Armoured Division) was a unit of the German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division was organized under the code name Infantry Command IV (''Infanterieführer IV'') in October 1934. On Oc ...

, a German unit in WWII

Aviation divisions

13th Strategic Missile Division The 13th Strategic Missile Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Fifteenth Air Force, based at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. It was inactivated on 2 July 1966. Initially formed in 1940 a ...

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13th Air Defense Division The 13th Air Defense Division (''Serbo-Croatian: 13. divizija protivvazdušne odbrane/ 13. дивизија противваздушне одбране'') was an air defense division established in 1968. History The 13th Air Defense Division was f ...

Other divisions

13th Army Division The Southern Army Division ( sv, Södra arméfördelningen, 13. förd), was a division of the Swedish Army that operated in various forms from 1941 until 2000. Its staff was located in Kristianstad Garrison in Kristianstad. The unit was disbanded ...

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13th Guards Cavalry Division In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the note thirteen scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the thirteenth. The interval can be also described as a compound sixth, spanning an octave pl ...

, Soviet Union

Infantry divisions

Airborne divisions

Armoured divisions

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Other divisions

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