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Members : Alfréd Bartoš, Joseph Waltz, Jiří Potůček
Day of the away team: of the 28.-29.12.1941
drop point : Senice in Poděbrady
Task : connecting and reporting
Area of action: Pardubicko, Prague
Code name of the radio: Libuše

the Fate of the members of the away team:
And.Bartos has shot 21.6.1942 in Pardubice.
J. Waltz shot 18.6.1942 in the church of Cyril and Methodius in Resslova street
in Prague.
J.Brook was shot 2.7.1942 in Pardubice

Source:
Jolynn Brewer, Came from the sky, Our Army 1993, ISBN 80-206-0289-5
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The group commander was first lieutenant. Alfréd Bartoš.
Radiotelegrafistou read. Jiří Potůček. He had become the hunted. Exhaustion fell asleep in the woods,where he surprised a patrol of gendarmes. When I Stream to pull out a gun, zblízkosti shot him gendarme Půlpán.

Significant co-workers SYLVERU AND they were:

Jindřich Švanda (*13.7.1904). The miller from the village of Ležáky, where the radio station "Anji" in the long term with the success of the broadcast. He was shot together with other collaborators of the paratroopers at the Manor in Pardubice 2.7.1942.

Charles Priest (*16.1.1899). Chief police sergeant in Vrbatův Kostelec. To endanger the lives of others, in a no-win situation 22.6.1942 shot.

Francis Hladěna (*14.7. 1903). A former motorcycle racer (connected with the founding of the race Golden helmet) from the beginning, along with his wife, involved in cooperation with parachutists. After the arrest allegedly committed 18.6.1942 suicide by jumping from a window in the building of the pardubice gestapo. Wife Tat'ána (*20.9.1920) executed at the Manor in Pardubice 2.7.1942.

Ludmila Small (*19.8.1909). The teacher, the clutch rtm. Joseph Valčíka. In march she helped him escape from Pardubice. After the arrest of 20.6.1942 poisoned.

Mudr. Josef Barton' (*14.8.1902). Treating a sick Bartos. Executed with his wife at the Manor in Pardubice 2.7.1942.

Věra Junková (*24.6.1917).A close associate. She knew with Bartos of the grammar school in Pardubice. Executed at the Manor in Pardubice 2.7.1942.

Vaclav Krupka (*6.5.1914),together with his wife Hana (*30.1.1921) a close associate of Bartos. Krupka was after the arrest of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Both lived to the end of the war.

drawn: J. čvančara Action assassination - 1991.
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The group was planted together with groups ANTHROPOID and aeroplane [url=/topic/view/8646/Handley-Page-Halifax-B-Mk-II]Halifax Mk. II L9613/NF-IN, belonging to the 138. squadron for special tasks. Sedmičlenou crew consisted of F/Lt R. C. Hockey, W/O R. P. Wilkin, F/Sgt Holden, Sgt Burke Sgt Berwick, Sgt Walton and Sgt And. Hughes. The dispatcher of the landing party was škpt. Jaroslav Šustr. The machine started at 22:00 and landed at 8:19 on its base to Tangmere.

source:
Rajlich, Jiří: The sky proud Albion, 2. part, World of wings, Cheb 2000, ISBN 80-85280-66-3
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