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After failed attempts on 29 October, 7 November and 30 November 1941, the three-man team (Alfréd Bartoš, Josef Valčík, Jiří Potůček) successfully landed in
Czechoslovakia on 29 December. Bartoš was able to make contact with the resistance and by 15 January 1942 Potůček had established a radio link
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Bartoš traveled to France, where he assisted at the
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Operation Silver A was a military operation organized by the intelligence division of the
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