Manganese

Manganese


Members : František Bíroš, Štefan Košina, Drahomír Vaňura
Day of landing: from 10 June 1944
Place of landing : Velké Uhrovce
Task : intelligence, organizational
Area of operation : Slovak State
Radio code name:


Fate of paratroopers:
František Bíroš + 2. 11. 1944 at Detvanské hory
Drahomír Vaňura + 2. 11. 1944 at Detvanské hory
Štefan Košina - survived
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Staff sergeant František Bíroš, staff sergeant Štefan Košina, platoon sergeant Drahomír Vaňura


lieutenant in memoriam Bíroš František captured by a German commando and subsequently shot +01.11.1944 Sopotnícka dolina district Banská Bystrica.


Task : to establish communication between the Military Radio Headquarters in London and the Czechoslovak resistance in Slovakia.


02.05.1944 - the group sailed to Italy where it was waiting for deployment,
on the night of 09. to 10. 06. 1944 - landed in the cadastre of the village Veľké Uherce Topoľčany district, during the jump they lost the radio, subsequently operating in Brezová pod Bradlom and Bratislava,


end of June 1944 - cooperate with the secret military council headed by pplk. Golian,


September 1944 - received new radios and provide a link between British officers in Slovakia and bases in Italy,


22 September 1944 - subordinated with the station Marienka to the Headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia.


Source : VHÚ Praha, VHÚ Bratislava - Military Personalities of the Czechoslovak Resistance 1939 - 1945, Avis Prague - May 2005
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