The drop zone “Kawka 1” (Ref. No. 5021/43) was located 32 km southeast of Kraków. In the records of Section VI of the Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, it was listed under numbers 6 and 402. The site was designated as a bastion capable of receiving drops from 3 aircraft. There is no information whatsoever about the functioning of this site or contact addresses. The known alert dates are: November 13–15, November 19–21, December 5–8, December 13–16, 1943, and January 5–8, January 13–16, March 7–8, and March 13–16, 1944. The last entry in the card reports the liquidation of the site, a change of location, and its re-establishment as “Kawka 2.”
The drop zone code-named “Kawka 2” (Ref. No. 5021/43 and 1982/44) was located 16 km southwest of Wieliczka near Lipnica Murowana. In the records of Section VI of the Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, it was listed under numbers 402 and 308. It was originally designated as a bastion capable of receiving drops from 3 aircraft.
There is no information whatsoever about the functioning of this site or contact addresses. The known alert dates are: November 13–15, November 19–21, December 5–8, December 13–16, 1943, and January 5–8, January 13–16, March 7–8, and March 13–16, 1944.
Two cases are known of aircraft being directed to this site, both outside the designated alert periods: the first — on the night of April 16/17, 1944, when Australian F/S L.J. Blattman in a Handley Page Halifax (JN-925 “X”) was to make a drop in a 0-12-12 configuration, but due to fog did not find the site. The second case was a flight by an aircraft of the same type (LW-284 “T”) commanded by Observer Lieutenant (F/O) Tadeusz Gorzkowski; also due to weather conditions, no drop was made on the night of April 23/24, 1944.
