In Kirtiliškės village, near Grėbliūnai homestead, on January 19, 1949, in a battle with the MGB unit (9 operatives, 30 soldiers and 50 stribes), which lasted for 2 hours, 8 of the 18th partisans of Dainava district Šarūnas team Mindaugas group were killed: Šarūnas teams Chief of the Communications Department and Chief of the Staff of Mindaugas Homeland Jonas Jančė-Kovas, str. 1926, Neravų k., Dab. Lazdijai district, partisan since December 3, 1946, Jonas Janulevičius-Lašas, st. 1928 Grikapalio k., Dab. Lazdijai district, partisan since November 24, 1948, died in the nearby village of Nemajūnai, Pranas Kliučinskas, str. 1928 Avižienių village, Zigmas Lisauskas-Chancellor (?), G. 1921 Kantrinciškės village, now Lazdijai district, Antanas Maksimavičius-Mauras, st. 1920 Akmenių k., Dab. Lazdijai district, partisan since June 3, 1948, Jonas Navickas-Šernas, st. 1923 Belt language, now Lazdijai district, partisan since 1944, Juozas Riškevičius-Varnėnas, st. 1922 Neravų village, partisan since September 10, 1948, escaped from the Soviet army. Note: Vladas Smalinskas-Ulonas, st. Straigių k., Dab. Lazdijai district, having left Kirtiliškės village fights, killed in the nearby village of Nemajūnai.
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