Cseh Valentin szerk.: „70 éve alakult a MAORT” – tanulmányok egy bányavállalat történetéből (2009)
Valentin Cseh: Allied Air-strikes against MAORT's Facilities in 1944
Annex no. 2. Lovászi, Januar)? 8, 1944 Report on US bomber formations' sorties on the 7th of the month. Air-raid sirens went off in Lovászi at 10.30 AM on January 7th, and at the same dme it was already possible to hear the strong sound of aircraft at high altitude. Based on telephone reports from our observers, there were probably three waves that passed overhead, at high altitude /approximately 6000m/ above the clouds. Aircraft only broke through the cloud cover incidentally and for short periods of time, so it was impossible to count them accurately. The one thing we were able to determine is that the second wave must have been made up of 22-24 aeroplanes. Usually they pass over us heading from the S towards the N and NE. Around 11 o'clock, one of the formations turned around, and approached from the N. According to the observer, when the aircraft passed over Lovászi, they started to descend. The sound of the engines became so intensive at this point, that it could be heard loudly in the central air-raid shelter despite the shut doors and windows. A few minutes later, observers and tool pushers on their shifts at the time reported in excitement that although it was impossible to see the planes behind the clouds, thev can see cigar and egg-shaped objects /Pbombs/ falling slowly and irregularly or floating /"as if they were feathers"/. At around 11.30, machine-gun fire was heard from the direction of Alsólendva and Rédics. According to what eyewitnesses from Lendva later related, German fighters engaging the American bombers was clear to see above them. Not much later a loud explosion could be heard from the W. As it turned out later, 11 bombs were dropped on an uninhabited area on the limits of the village of Zorkóháza /to the NW of Alsólendva/. The story about the American bomber that was shot down, which crashed in flames was not true. A total of 4 objects tell on the grounds of the Lovászi oilfield: approximately 100 m to the N from well no. L-35, approximately 200 m to the SE from well no. L-64, approximately 150 m to the NW from well no. L-76, approximately 50 m to the E from well no. L-75 /?/, /In addition to these, one object each fell into the Csente Valley, and in the forest towards Rédics./ After the air-raid warning was cancelled /at around 12 o'clock/, I got into the car immediately, and hurried to the site to inspect the dropped objects. Not far from well no. L-35,1 found a dark grey-greenish, cigar-shaped, empty gas tank that was fully intact apart from an approximately 40 cm transversal slit. Its length is 3 m, is width at the middle is 70 cm. One of its ends was more pointed, with a ball made of a bakelite-like material at the tip. There was a caption of white printed lowercase letters in a red square roughly 20x20 cm reading "no step" on one side of its more rounded end; while an approximately 10x20 cm size part on the other side contained data:
