Ján Nálepka

Ján Nálepka
Nickname(s)"Repkin"
Born(1912-09-20)20 September 1912
Smižany, Slovakia
(now Slovakia)
Died16 November 1943(1943-11-16) (aged 31)
Ovruch, Axis powers-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Buried
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Allegiance Czechoslovakia (1934–1939)
Slovak Republic (1939–1943)
Soviet Union (1943)
Years of service1934–1943
RankCaptain, brigadier general (posthumously)
Battles / warsWorld War II
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
Hero of the Slovak National Uprising

Ján Nálepka (20 September 1912 in Szepessümeg, Kingdom of Hungary – 16 November 1943 in Ovruch, Axis powers-occupied Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) was a Slovak captain who organized and led an anti-fascist Slovak partisan detachment in the Soviet Union during World War II.

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