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Members : Karol Young, Jan Grajzel, Jozef Haríň
Day to drop: from 21.-22. 12.1944
Place of landing : in the city of Prostějov
Task : reporting
Area of operation: northeast Moravia
Code name the radios of: Karel

The fate of the members of the away team:
Charles Small shot 29.12.1944
The other members of the landing party survived the war.
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Airdrop was thrown together with a group of Tungsten airplane Handley Page Halifax Mk.II JP242/GR-E, belonging to the 301. squadron . The crew consisted of the pilot F/Sgt Tadeusz Mioduchovski, navigator F/Sgt Stanisław Krzemiński, radiooperátor W/O Zygmunt Zarębski, on-board mechanic Sgt Stanislaw Piątkowski, dispatcher F/Sgt Alfred Schike, bombometčík F/Sgt Antoni Kajdewicz and gunner F/Sgt Edward Waloch. The machine took off from the base of the Campo Cassale at Brindisi, where also in the 2:05 landed after the 9:35 flight hours. During the flight the machine was twice attacked by a night tank, but the crew managed to escape and accomplish the task.

source:
To. Bieniecki - Polski załogi over Europą, Bellona, Warszawa 2005, ISBN 83-11-10235-X.
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