By now the ethnic mix of the unit had changed, since most of the Slovak members of the original unit had never made it to Moravia: of those from the original air-drop into Sklabiňa, only two Slovaks got through.
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On 21 August 1944 the first group parachuted into the area of Sklabiňa, Slovakia, which was at the time an operational area of the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik.
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The capitals of the Turóc county were the Sklabiňa Castle and Martin (name until 1950: Turčiansky Svätý Martin); from 1772 only Martin was the capital.