The drop zone code-named “Wilga 1” (Ref. No. 12166/44 and 10352/44) was located 26 km northeast of Nowy Targ. The “Wilga 1” bastion was considered by the Home Army Headquarters during the preparation of Operation “Most V” (Bridge V). In a cable dated January 15, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel (Staff) Marian Utnik informed the Home Army Commander-in-Chief, General Leopold Okulicki, about Operation “Most V”: “Near ‘Wilga 1,’ 33 Polish, American, and British airmen downed during operations to you have been gathered. They have prepared a bajor [improvised airfield]. Mewa [radio station in Italy] is in constant contact with radio station 83 and will send a bridge to pick them up at the earliest opportunity. Operation entirely independent of Świetlik and Pająk [improvised airfields for ‘Most IV’] within the ongoing operations of the 10th American Tactical Fleet.”
Lieutenant Colonel Marian Dorotycz-Malewicz, code name “Hańcza,” in a cable about the Kraków Home Army District wrote on January 17, 1945: “…We are ready for the bridge at Mucha. We will send three Dakotas at half-hour intervals.”
Unfortunately, Operations “Most IV” and “Most V” did not take place, as Soviet forces liberated the Podhale area in January 1945, and the aforementioned Allied airmen were transported westward via Lwów, Kyiv, and Odessa in the spring of 1945.
