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I was holding the flash light and they were dropped

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After the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, Ján Bugel was assigned to service at the military airport Tri Duby in Zvolen. He could only sleep for a few hours during the day and at night, he stood at the runway with a flashlight and light-signaled for the aircraft. Dozens of paratroopers from the USSR were dropped at the airport to come to the help of the Slovak National Uprising. He remembered: “We were told to only light when hearing the sound of the aircraft overhead. So I lighted and they were jumping from the airplanes. Occasionally, some of them would end up in a tree, so we put them down.”

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Ján Bugel

Ján Bugel

Ján Bugel was born on August 23, 1923, in Slovakia in Kalniště. In 1943, he was drafted to military service in the Slovak army. In Zvolen, he served as a liaison officer of his unit and as the “batman” of the commander of the first division, later of the German military supervisor. During the Slovak National Uprising in the summer of 1944, he worked briefly at the airport Tri Duby and in the barracks in Zvolen at a warehouse from which supplied civilians with gear and arms. He participated in the Battle of Strečno, for example. At the end of the war he joined the Czechoslovak army advancing under the command of Colonel Svoboda. After an injury in Liptovský Mikuláš, he served with the field police, which was supposed to “clear” the trenches in the rear and detain the fleeing Germans. He was the commander of one of the detention camps for the Germans established in Jihlava. After the war, he worked in the Prague tatrovka factory as a worker. He also joined the Social Democratic Party. In the 1960s, he became a professional soldier and served at the Pardubice airport as the commander of the mobilization store. He died in 2011.

Sliač, letiště, Slovenská republika

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Historie letiště sahá do roku 1936, kdy zde byla založena letecká škola a vybudován první hangár. Letiště sehrálo důležitou roli během Slovenského národního povstání v roce 1944. Již před jeho vypuknutím se v uzavřených hangárech opravovaly vyřazené stroje a připravovaly se na bojové využití. V době povstání byl velitelem letiště kpt. Belo Kubica. Od 25. 9. do 16. 10. probíhala na letišti přeprava 2. paradesantní brigády ze Sovětského svazu, celkem bylo přepraveno 1739 osob a 248 tun zbraní. Přistávala tu i anglická a americká letadla s materiální pomocí. Letiště bylo několikrát bombardováno. V roce 1968 převzala správu nad vojenskou částí letiště sovětská armáda, která jej využívala až do převratu v roce 1989.

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