(23. 10. 1913 - 5. 4. 1944)
A leksonis Juozas Yul'evich - radio operator of the underground radio. Born October 23, 1913 in the village now Ritselyay Lazdijai regions of Lithuania in a peasant family. Logos. He graduated from primary school. He served in the National Lithuanian Army. He studied at the Kaunas Economic School, where he created the Komsomol. Since 1944 - Member of Kaunas city committee of the Komsomol.
Since the summer of 1943, after graduating from high school special-purpose, became a radio operator of the underground radio station in Kaunas. Handed residents gororda Sovinformburo messages about the situation on the fronts, the atrocities of the Nazi invaders, calling for combat. The radio station was found by the fascists, by happy sluchaynossti Juozas managed to escape. Receiving a new walkie-talkie, Aleksonis settled near the center of town, near the station zheleznodororzhnoy. Watching the enemy trains, report them to the headquarters of the guerrilla movement. The Soviet command received valuable information on the movement of enemy trains. In January 1944, noticing the surveillance of the house, Aleksonis moved to a new place to house an underground Communist Obelenisa. At this time gitleroovtsy acted ostotrozhnee and were able to calculate a daring guerrilla-radioman. When the fascists April 5, 1944 surrounded a house where there was a radio station, Aleksonis fired until the last round.
. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union, Juozas Yul'evich Aleksonisu posthumously awarded July 1, 1958.
. He was awarded the Order of Lenin
. Name Hero were a ship, a secondary school in Kaunas.
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Sources:
1) Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary. V.1. M.: Voeniz.1987.
2) People of legends. Issue 5 - Moscow, Politizdat. 1974
3) Young Heroes of WWII. - M.: Young Guard, 1970
