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Old 02-27-2004, 01:46 PM   #121
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3. Otakar Jaroš

1st Lt. Otakar Jaroš , Czechoslovakia, 18/4/1943 #?
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Otakar Jaroš (1.8.1912 - 8.3.1943)
Jaros was a Slovak who distinguished himself during the 1943 liberation of Kharkiv, in which a Czechoslovak battalion took part.
Jaroš was the first foreigner to be awarded with the HSU in WW2
Awarded in memoriam for the bravery during the fight for Ukrainian town Sokolovo.
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The 1st Independent Battalion was reinforced by Czechs from the so-called "Orumky group," 95 members of the previous Polish campaign. Czechoslovak Communists made their presence felt as zamopolits, or political advisors. Most of the regular officers, however, remained apolitical. One of them, First Lieutenant Otakar Jaroš , criticized the so-called "star gazers" (i.e. Communist Party sympathizers). Ironically, Jaros later became the first foreigner to receive the Order of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The 1st Independent Battalion was committed to the front in March 1943. On April 2, it saw its first major action at Sokolov, near Kharkov. Svoboda's troops were wedged between the Soviet 62nd and 25th Guards Rifle divisions. In the subsequent advance, Lieutenant Jaros was killed. Svoboda's troops nonetheless made a significant breach in the German lines. Benes sent his congratulations from London, and the Soviets awarded Svoboda the Order of Lenin.

From the Records of the Ceskoslovensky Armadi Sbov v SSSR, 1. (First Czechoslovakian Army).

Letters of Generals Khrushchev and Valutin, in which they praise the participation of Czechoslovak soldiers in the Charkov operation, and wish further success to the Corps.

Decree of the Presidium granting the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" to Lieutenant Otakar Jaros.

Otakar Jaroš (1 August 1912 – 8 March 1943) was a Czech officer in the Czechoslovak army of the Soviet Union. He was killed in the Battle of Sokolovo and became the first foreign soldier decorated with the highest Soviet decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Place of birth. Louny, Bohemia

Place of death Sokolovo, Soviet Union (today Ukraine)

Years of service. 1937-9 1942-3

Rank. Lieutenant (1937-9; Czechoslovak Army); First Lieutenant (1942-3; First Czechoslovak independent field battalion); Captain (in memoriam)

Commands held. Commander of signal platoon in Prešov (1937-9), Commander of the First Company, First Czechoslovak independent field battalion (1942-3)

Battles/wars Battle of Sokolovo

Awards Hero of the Soviet Union

Otakar Jaroš was born in Louny, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, today the Czech Republic) into the family of a Czech railway engineer. When he was nine months old, his father was transferred to Mělník and the family followed him. Jaroš spent his childhood in Mělník and joined the Sokol and Scout organisations. These two organisations formed his physical skills and later fighting spirit.
Following Czech independence in 1918, Jaroš studied in grammar school, but he left and attended high school in electrotechnics. After graduation, he was drafted and served his basic military service in the 3rd Signals Brigade in Trnava. He attended the non-commissioned officers school for a year and finished as a corporal. Jaroš went on to attend the school for reserve officers in Turnov. Following the advice of his uncle, Colonel František Konopásek, Jaroš entered the military academy in Hranice. On 29 August 1937 he was appointed to the rank of sub-lieutenant. He served as the commander of a signals platoon in Prešov for a year.
After the 1938 Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia was disunited. Jaroš returned to Mělník where the municipal office asked him to be the chief of police, which he refused. Instead, he worked for the post office in Náchod.

“ Germans are here, I would have to work against them and that would not end good. ”

—Otakar Jaroš when refusing job of police chief

Jaroš did not accept the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and in the summer of 1939 he escaped to Poland where he joined a Czechoslovak legion in Krakow under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ludvík Svoboda. When Poland was defeated by the Nazis and its eastern parts were occupied by the Soviet Union, the legion fell on 17 September into Soviet captivity.

In the Soviet internment, Jaroš led the signals platoon and also the officer's school. In January 1940 he began serving as the radio operator of the Czechoslovak military mission, Moscow. After the German assault on the Soviet Union, the situation changed radically. In the rank of lieutenant (since October 1941), Jaroš, together with other Czech officers, became a constituent member of the First Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion in Buzuluk in 1942. He was made First Lieutenant and was in command of 1st Company (February 7, 1942).

During a German counteroffensive in February 1943, the Czechoslovak battalion was ordered to defend the frozen river in the vicinity of Kharkov. Jaroš's strengthened 1st Company took position in front of the river in the village of Sokolovo; the rest of the battalion and supporting Soviet units stayed behind the river. On the afternoon of 8 March, German armored troops with at least 14 tanks launched two attacks on Sokolovo. In the ensuing battle, 1st Company was almost annihilated, and Jaroš was killed. They were ordered to remain until reinforcements could arrive, but the supporting tanks could not cross the thawing river (the battalion's commander had neglected to take into account the terrain). Not until late that night were the remnants of 1st Company ordered to retreat, the further defence of Sokolovo having lost any value, as the unfrozen river no longer provided an avenue for the Germans to advance.

For his heroism Otakar Jaroš was posthumously promoted to captain, and on 17 April 1943 he was decorated with the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the first member of a foreign army to be so honoured.

Other decorations:

Československý válečný kříž 1939 (Czechoslovak Military Cross), 13.3.1943
Order of Lenin, 17.4.1943
Sokolovská pamětní medaile (Commemorative medal of Sokolovo), 8.3.1948
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4. Vladislav W Wysotsky.

Captain Vladislav W Wysotsky, Poland, 11/11/1943, #?
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Born in 1908, died 12.10.1943.
Porucznik (leutienant) since 1939.
He was imprisoned in the USSR, joined the Polish army in the USSR in May 1943.
Served in the Infantry and was promoted to Captain in October 1943.
He was the 3rd Battalion Commander of the Kościusz - Division.
Captain Vladislav W Wysotsky was killed whilst leading an Infantry Assaut during the battle for Orscha near Lenino in the Vitebsk-Orscha-Mogilev
area on 12.10.1943.
He was postumously awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" on 11/11/1943.
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5. Aniela Tadeushevna Krzywo

Private Aniela Tadeushevna Krzywo, Poland, (Nurse, Riflewoman, MG Gunner) , 11/11/1943, #?
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Aniela Krzywoñ was a soldier of the Independent Female Batallion (a part of the Polish 1st Infantry Division fighting with the Soviets). Therefore she was the best shot (using PPSh) she got the order (with 3 other female fusiliers) to guard a truck ("Studebacker") loaded by very important maps and documents. Close to front the truck was been attacked by a German aircraft and started to burn. A few soldiers in the truck has been killed and wounded. Realizing her orders A. Krzywoñ jumped into the truck and threw out the documents. Unfortunately she was burnt to deayth in the truck. She was the lowest ranked soldier (private) awarded by Soviet "Hero of the Soviet Union" and Polish "Virtuti Militari" of V class during battle of Lenino.
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Private , Polish, (1925-12/10/43) Awarded HSU 11/11/43
Only non Soviet female HSU Sacrificed her life to save her wounded comrades
and important headquarters documents when their truck was attacked by German planes.
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Aniela Krzywoń - 1925-1943
Szeregowiec (riadovoy) nurse in 1st fusilier komp., 1st bat. (E. Plater) 1st Inf. Div. (T. Kościuszko). Died in the battle of Lenino trying to save documents (other source says about saving wounded) from burning car of the div. hq. during a german bombardment.
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6. Julius Hiobner, ( Juliusz Samsonovich Hibner)

Capt, Julius Hiobner, ( Juliusz Samsonovich Hibner) , Poland, 21/12/1943, #2232
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Early Years Before World War II
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A Polish Jew, Juluisz Samsonovich Hibner was born in 1912 in Grzymalow Tarnopolski, Poland, and along with the general education in a Polish Gymnasium, his parents gave him a traditional Jewish education. Upon graduation from Gymnasium, he entered the Lvov Polytechnical Institute, but he was expelled for activity in the Communist movement.
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), he went to Spain where he joined the International Dombrowski Brigade which fought with the Republican Army against the troops of General Franco. After the defeat of the Republic in Spain, he was interred by the French authorities and interned with other foreign soldiers who had fought in Spain - first in France, then in Algiers, and he succeeded in escaping from the camp and made his way to the Soviet Union.

World War II
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In May 1943, the Union of Polish Patriots-emerges first in Poland then in the USSR, they undertook with the aid of the Soviet Union, the formation of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko 1st Polish Division, under the command of General Z. Berling.
Hibner joined this division on Aug.15, 1943 and was appointed deputy commander of the first infantry regiment, and the combat training of the division was completed at the end of August.
Leading the division into battle, the command assigned it the task of breaking through the German defense in the Sysoyevo-Lenino region on the Byelorussian border, commanded by Captain Hibner, the 1st regiment launched an offensive on October 12, 1943, fighting their way across the Mereya River and occupying the enemy's first trench, and then the village of Tregubovo.
German fire rained down on one of the battalion's regiments causing considerable losses, and forcing them to his the dirt. Captain Hibner was the first to rise from the ground and rally his forces behind him. This surprise attack culminated with bayonet combat, and driving the Germans from the positions they had occupied. During the capture of Tregubovo, Capt. Hibner was seriously wounded in both legs, but refused to leave the battlefield, and continued to direct the attack until its completion.

Receiving the Award
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The Soviet government awarded honors and medals for courage and heroism to 243 officers and soldiers of the Kosciuszko First Infantry Division, and by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 11, 1943, three soldiers were awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union." One of them was Captain Juliusz Samsonovich Hibner.

After the war, having reached the rank of Brigadier General, he retired and settled in Warsaw.

Article from April 2, 2000.
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Juliusz Hibner, who died six years ago, was also unwilling to talk about his order and title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Even his obituary didn't mention it. This was partly because he had supposedly received this highest Soviet distinction posthumously. In the Battle of Lenino, Polish forces established in the Soviet Union by Polish communists fought side by side with the Red Army. The event later became part of communist Poland's state mythology, and Stalin decided to honor three people killed in the battle: a woman (riflewoman Aniela Krzywoń was chosen), a prewar Polish Army officer (Capt. Władysław Wysocki) and a prewar communist (Hibner). The news of Hibner's death, who did sustain heavy injuries in battle, was premature. Through the rest of the war, Hibner had to put up with teasing from his colleagues. This has been confirmed by Col. Józef Światło, a high-ranking security official who escaped to the West in 1953 and passed on a lot of top-secret information to U.S. intelligence.
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7. Antonín Sochor.

General Antonín Sochor, Czechoslovakia, 21/11/1943, #2854
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Antonín Sochor (16.7.1914 - 16.8.1950)
After the anexation of Czechoslovakia he was sent to work in Germany, he ran away and joined a Czech military unit.
He Fought near Zhashkov
He was awarded on the 21th December 1943 with Bursik and Tesarik for bravery during the liberation of Kiev.
After the Communists took power (1948) he died in strange circumstances ("car accident")
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8. Richard Tesařík.

Tank Commander Lt. Richard Tesařík, Czechoslovakia, 21/12/1943, #1693
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Richard Tesařík (3.12.1915 - 27.3.1967)
Awarded his HSU on the 21th December 1943 with Bursik and Sochor for bravery during the liberation of Kiev.
After the Communists took power he was forced to leave the Army.

Richard Tesařík (December 3, 1915 - March 27, 1967) was a Czechoslovakian general and war hero. Holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union medal.

Czech athlete Štěpán Tesařík is his grandson.

Tesařík during WWII and the bust of Major-General Tesařík in Příbram
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9. Josef Buršík

2nd Lt Josef Buršík, Czechoslovakia, 21/12/1943, #1692
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Josef Bursik (11.9.1911 - 30.6.2002)
Was awarded his HSU on 21th December 1943 with Sochor and Tesarik for bravery during the liberation of Kiev.
After 1948 he was persecuted by the Communists, and 1949-1955 in prison
In 1955 went into exile.
In 1968 he returned his Soviet awards at Soviet embassy in London as protest against the Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
In books published in Communist Czechoslovakia till 1989 his name was not mentioned in the list of Czechoslovak HSU's.
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10. Marcel Albert.

First Lt. Marcel Albert, France, Pilot/ Normandie-Niemen, 27/11/1944, #?
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Born in Paris on the 25th of November 1917, Marcel Albert started his working life as a lowly apprentice for the Renault Company in Billancourt on the outskirts of Paris . Fascinated with aviation, he passed both basic pilot licenses thanks to a Government grant. In 1938, he entered the Istres flight school and obtained his military pilot license in July of that year. Promoted to Corporal, he was assigned a year later to the first fighter wing.

When World War Two began, he was transferred to the CIC (fighter pilot school center) in Chartres as an Instructor. Insisting on being sent to the front, he finally got his wish in February of 1940, and he was assigned to the 2nd escadrille of fighter group I/3 based in Cannes, as the transition to Dewoitine D-520 was in progress.

It was with GC I/3 that Marcel Albert obtained his first two victories; one confirmed on Mai 14th, and one probable on the 20th. After a long period of inactivity due to the armistice, Albert planned on " deserting " the Air Force of the Armistice with two other comrades; Sergeants Durand and Lefèvre. On the 14th of October 1941, taking off from Oran Algeria for a routine patrol, the three pilots headed for Gibraltar, where from there, they would rally the free French in England. At the end of the RAF's mandatory transition in a training unit, Albert was assigned to the Group " Ile de France " in May of 1942 where he would fly 48 war missions.

Volunteering for the Russian front, he arrived to the group " Normandie " on the 7th of October 1942. On the 16th of June 1943 he achieved his first success in Russia.

During the Orel battle, Albert would add five more victories to his score. Following the lost of Lieutenant Léon, he took command of the 1st escadrille on the 4th of September 1943. When the "Normandie" moved to its winter quarters in Toula on the 6th of November 1943, Albert learned of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
During the offensive against Eastern Prussia in October of 1944, he scored 7 new victories;
Stalin honored Albert by naming him " Hero of the Soviet Union " on November 28 1944.

Promoted to Captain, Marcel Albert left the regiment on the 12th of December 1944. He was one of the rare survivors of the first contingent, and one of only three pilots of the " Normandie Niemen " who became a " Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur ".
He would again join his regiment for their triumphant return at Le Bourget airport in June of 1945. Named Inspector of the Fighter Arm in October of 1945, he became the Air attaché in Prague, then left the Air Force, immigrated to the United States where he got married and became President of a large consortium of companies.

ALBERT Marcel

Sergeant
GC I/3
14.05.40 (2) Do 17 Suippes [51]

Pilot officer / Second lieutenant
GC 3
16.06.43 (2) Fw 189 Brusna-Mekovaïa [USSR]
14.07.43 (1) Bf 110 Iagodnia [USSR]
17.07.43 (1) Fw 190 Iagodnia [USSR]
17.07.43 (2) Fw 190 Znamenskaïa [USSR]
19.07.43 (5) Ju 88 Znamenskaïa [USSR]
31.08.43 (1) Ju 87 Ielnia [USSR]
01.09.43 (2) Fw 190 Ielnia [USSR]
17.09.43 (1) Fw 190 Ielnia [USSR]
22.09.43 (1) Fw 190 Smolensk [USSR]
04.10.43 (6) Hs 126 Krasno [USSR]
12.10.43 (1) Fw 190 Gorki [USSR]

Flying officer / First lieutenant
15.10.43 (3) Ju 88 Gorki [USSR]
15.10.43 (2) Fw 190 Gorki [USSR]
15.10.43 (2) Fw 190 Gorki [USSR]
16.10.44 (5) Ju 87 Pillupönen [Eastern Pomerania]
16.10.44 (2) Ju 87 Pillupönen [E.P.]
16.10.44 (1) Fw 190 Stallupönen [E.P.]
18.10.44 (2) Hs 129 Stallupönen [E.P.]
18.10.44 (3) Hs 129 Stallupönen [E.P.]
23.10.44 (2) Bf 109 Stallupönen [E.P.]
26.10.44 (3) Bf 109 Walterkehmen [E.P.]

(X): total number of pilots participating to the destruction of the enemy airplane.
[XX]: geographical French department or country.
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11. Roland de la Poype

Capitain Roland de la Poype, France, Pilot/ Normandie-Niemen, 27/11/1944, #?
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Roland de La Poype can take great pride in having changed our universe. His journey was typical of the majority of the Free French Aviators. After the war, few of them would continue their career in the French Air Force. Returning to civilian life, they would apply their enterprising spirit of the war years, and many of them would find a new career as successful, and as brilliant as their military career.

Roland de La Poype was born in the Puy-de-Dôme region of France on July 28, 1920. In August 1939 he enlisted in the French Air Force as a student pilot and obtained his pilot license in March 1940. As the storm of war hit France, he was at the fighter pilot school at Etampes. With his comrades of his graduating class, they followed Commandant Lionel de Marmier to Saint-Jean de Luz where they embarked for England along with Polish Aviators.

Joining the FAFL (Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, or Free French Air Force), he was stationed in French Equatorial Africa from July 1940 to January 1941. Proceeding to England with the rank of Sergeant, he was integrated into Squadron 602, where he would get his baptism of fire. His promotion in rank rose rapidly, becoming a Flight - Lieutenant in the RAF in August 1942 (his French rank however never changed).

Then, he signed up and volunteered to serve with other French pilots on the Russian front, arriving at Ivanovo on November 28 1942 with the first element of GC 3 Normandie. He stayed there for two years, during which time his record of accomplishments earned him the rank of Warrant Officer and then the rank of Captain, receiving the highest order of decorations, including Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the war, he stayed a while longer with the "Neu-Neu" (A French expression describing the group Normandie Niemen), and after that, he became the Air attaché in Belgium, and hence in Yugoslavia. In 1947 the first part of his "living a full life" had come to a successful conclusion. The opportunity for the second part of his life came at the age of 27, and it would be no less successful than the first.

A visionary and genius inventor, Roland de la Poype understood that the future was in the use of plastic and disposable containers. In May 1947 he built a factory and began manufacturing a product that would revolutionize the life of the French people: a small plastic shampoo container with just the right amount for one usage. It was called "The berlingot Dop"! He had started a powerful industry of plastic wrapping for all of life's domains, from alimentary products to leisure items.

In 1985 he took a well-deserved retirement.

Roland de La Poype

Flight Lieutnant
N° 602 Squadron
22.08.42 (1) Bf 109 Gravelines [62]

Warrant Officer/Captain
GC3

Victory list:

31.08.43 (1) Ju 87 Ielnia [USSR]
01.09.43 (2) Fw 190 Ielnia [USSR]
04.09.43 (1) Fw 190 Ielnia [USSR]
19.09.43 (3) Ju 87 Ielnia [USSR]
22.09.43 (1) Ju 87 Smolensk [USSR]
01.10.43 (6) Hs 126 Krasno [USSR]
13.10.43 (2) Fw 190 Gorki [URSS]
14.10.44 (1) Bf 109 Ragnit [Eastern Pomerania]
16.10.44 (5) Ju 87 Pillupönen [E-P]
16.10.44 (1) Ju 87 Pillupönen [E-P]
16.10.44 (2) Fw 190 Stallupönen [E-P]
16.10.44 (2) Fw 190 Stallupönen [E-P]
18.10.44 (2) Hs 129 Stallupönen [E-P]
23.10.44 (1) Fw 190 Gumbinnen [E-P]
26.10.44 (3) Bf 109 Walterkehnen [E-P]

(X): total number of pilots participating to the destruction of the enemy airplane.
[XX]: geographical French department or country.
"Neu-Neu" = NN = Normandie-Niemen.

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12. Jan Nálepka-Repkin.

Guerrilla Commander Ján Nálepka-Repkin, Czechoslovakia , 2/5/1945, #?
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Ján Nalepka-Repkin (20.9.1912 - 16.11.1943)
A number of Slovak Nationals , committed to police and antipartisan action in the Pripet Marshes of northern Ukraine and Belarus, deserted under the command of Captain Jan Nalepka-Repkin, and themselves became partisans.

Jan Nalepka-Repkin was awarded his HSU on the 2nd May 1945 in memoriam for the bravery during the fight for Ukrainian town Ovruc.
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