Item PRENTICE & WICKSTEAD 2/1/2 - Operation reports by Captain Patrick Evans, Vitsi sub-area, West Macedonia, Apr-Nov 1944

Operations reports by Capt Patrick Hutchinson Evans, Officer Commanding Vitsi sub-area, codenamed FERTILISER A, to Headquarters, Area 1, West Macedonia, Greece concerning liaison with Raiding Support Regiment (RSR) troops and Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) partisans, the limits of Greek partisan (andarte) control, political relations with Serbian and Macedonian partisans and the planning for Operation NOAH'S ARK, operations by Allied and Greek forces during the German withdrawal from the peninsula. File includes operations report detailing sabotage targets selected during the German withdrawal from Greece; record of operations during the German withdrawal from the Vitsi-Florina area, 4 Sep-31 Oct 1944, detailing combined operations with ELAS and the Raiding Support Regiment; report describing general state of conditions at Vitsi sub-area, including mention of fierce anti-royalist propaganda initiated by Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM) and the subsequent ELAS executions, security measures undertaken by the sub-area and estimated numbers of partisans in the sub-area. 5 items.