The drop zone code-named “Sójka” (Ref. No. 4589) was located 18 km east of Mszana Dolna near the village of Słopnice. In the records of Section VI of the Commander-in-Chief’s Staff, it was listed under number 401 as a bastion capable of receiving drops from three aircraft. Contact addresses for parachutists are not known. The site began its alert in the periods of June 2–4 and 8–10, 1944. Subsequent alert periods were July 3–5 and 9–11, August 31 – September 3, and September 7–9, 1944. This receiving site was located on the opposite side of the Kamienica stream valley from the “Wilga” site (similarly to “Wilga,” on a mountain slope, below Mogielnica, on the grounds of the “u Florka” forestry lodge).
This drop zone appears in reports quite early, especially in relation to the “Wilga” site, as it is already mentioned as functioning in a radio message of August 30, 1944. The precise date of the site’s designation is not known, but considering the first alert period, i.e., June 2–4, 1944, it must have been designated early.
On the night of July 3/4, 1944, three Handley Page Halifax aircraft were directed to this site from Italy, of which one did not find the target, the second, piloted by P/O C. W. Crabtree, arrived over the drop zone but did not make the drop due to the absence of a signal, and one of them, piloted by W/O C. T. Fairweather, was shot down over Yugoslavia after completing a drop confirmed by a cable from the Kraków Home Army District. A successful drop was also made on the night of July 9/10, 1944, by an aircraft piloted by W/O R. Clacket (this same pilot also made a successful drop at the “Żywica” site near Baczyn on the last night of July 1944). The last alert periods, i.e., from August 31, 1944, were cancelled by the Drop Section of Section VI of the Commander-in-Chief’s Staff.
