Freedom Defenders Bunker-Command Post (Povilas Žilis-Klevas Bunker)
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Freedom Defenders Bunker-Command Post (Povilas Žilis-Klevas Bunker). Photo by Alina Borženkaitė
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 Žaliosios giria, Druciškių k., Pasvalio r., Lithuania
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Povilas Žilys-Klevas, Audrūnas, was a non-commissioned officer of the Lithuanian army during the interwar period, and from 1944 a partisan of Northern Lithuania, who from 1947 led the Joniškėlis, Pasvalys and Vabalninkas partisan detachments of the Darius and Girėnas detachment. On August 25, 1951, he was appointed commander of the Sierakauskas detachment and belonged to the Vytis district. In 1948, P. Žilys was a partisan in the Žaliojės girija, near the village of Druciškės, where he had set up a bunker. It is assumed that the bunker was successful, since no Soviet occupation structures were discovered and it is most likely that the bunker naturally decayed. In 2003, it was rebuilt by the efforts of the Pasvalys riflemen.

Used sources and references:

Romas Kaunietis, Memoirs of the Partisans of Aukštaitija, Part II, Vilnius, 1998.