In my last post, I noted that there are two conflicting stories about why Opapa’s 1945 mission to Austria went awry: Opapa’s narrative was that the plane’s crew made an error and dropped him in Yugoslavia, while other accounts (likely based on the report by the plane crew) insisted that Paul Kröck, Opapa’s comrade, mistook Yugoslavia for his hometown of Freiland, Austria.
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In my last post, I noted that there are two conflicting stories about why Opapa’s 1945 mission to Austria went awry: Opapa’s narrative was that the plane’s crew made an error and dropped him in Yugoslavia, while other accounts (likely based on the report by the plane crew) insisted that Paul Kröck, Opapa’s comrade, mistook Yugoslavia for his hometown of Freiland, Austria.