STEVAN STEVO GATALO, son of URO\u0160, born on April 28, 1921, in Potoci, Mostar, farmer, member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1941 and Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1942, in the Battalion since October 1941, fighter of the Zijemaljska Squad, killed in Potoci near Mostar on May 18, 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Circumstances of <\/em>Stevo’s death, as recorded: <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Stevo Gatalo, a fighter of the Zijemaljska Squad, a peasant from Potoci, volunteered to kill the Ustasha Ivan Doko in Bijelo Polje. On April 18, Gatalo waited for Doko and disarmed him, but when they started moving, Doko took Stevo’s rifle and killed him. As an act of revenge, the Ustasha killed Stevo’s father Uro\u0161 on the same day.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STEVAN STEVO GATALO, son of URO\u0160, born on April 28, 1921, in Potoci, Mostar, farmer, member of the League of Communist Youth (SKOJ) since 1941 and Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1942, in the Battalion since October 1941, fighter of the Zijemaljska Squad, killed in Potoci near Mostar on May 18, 1942. Circumstances of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9313,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[314,331,316],"tags":[317],"prezime":[398],"class_list":["post-12509","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-18-25-g-en","category-poginuli-1942-en","category-poginuli-u-bih-en","tag-bataljon-en","prezime-g-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":" grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945. Fotografija<\/em>: Policijski sat za fa\u0161izam | Tacno.net<\/a><\/p>\r\n Photo of the memorial plaque<\/em>: S. Demirovi\u0107<\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1921. Potoci \u2013 1942. 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Until the formation of the 13th Herzegovina Brigade in May 1944, 827 fighters passed through the Battalion, and 445 of them perished, including 211 from Mostar. Of the 86 women, 43 were killed. Mostar residents also fought in many other units of the NOVJ (People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia) and among the ranks of the activists of the National Liberation War in Mostar and other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina... According to the records of the organization SUBNOR Mostar, every third citizen was an activist of the National Liberation War, 670 fighters were killed, 1517 were victims of fascist terror, and 206 were civilian war victims. D\u017eemil \u0160arac, article \"Sa Mostarcima\" (\"With the People from Mostar\"), Hercegovina No. 9, p. 221.\r\n\r\n\"And we were all young. Those of us who were 17, 18 years old, some seemed old even though they were not older than 25. The ones over 30 were rare. There were girls and boys with different characteristics and temperaments, robust and calm, talkative and silent, recklessly brave and rational, ordinary and above-average, semi-literate and university-educated, workers and highly skilled craftsmen, high school students and university students, skilled singers and those who couldn't carry a tune, jokers and serious-minded individuals. From all our nations and religions: Muslims, Croats, Serbs, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Jews, atheists, and semi-atheists. Some were from straight from Mostar and others from the surrounding locations, from Konjic and outside Konjic.\" (Hercegovina Magazine No. 7, p. 238)\r\n\r\nGroups of new fighters arrived from Mostar every 10-15 days, and the Unit quickly grew into a solid military force. 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