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Place of Birth: Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
About Vlado Bagat
- Vlado Bagat (20 October 1915 – 1 June 1944) was a Croatian and Yugoslav soldier. A native of Split, Bagat joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939.
- After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Bagat was involved in creation of the first Partisan units in Dalmatia and took part in actions against Italian occupation force.
- In 1943, after the capitulation of Italy and during the following German counteroffensive, as a political commissar of the 4th Naval Sector he supervised a successful evacuation of Partisan units and civilian refugees from Dalmatian coast to islands and Italy, now controlled by the Allied forces.
- In May 1944, as a political commissioner of the 2nd Naval Sector, he thwarted a German attempt to destroy Partisan units on the island of Krk.
- Upon the return from his mission, he was killed in an ambush by German forces on the island of Olib. Posthumously he received a title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
- After the war a sewing-machine factory in Zadar and an elementary school in Split was named after him.
- After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the Croatian War of Independence, the school was renamed to Pojišan Elementary School.
- A memorial on Olib, built to mark the place of his death, was also removed during the war.
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