„Courageously forward“ - a partisan from Baška
Mladen Lolić was born in Baška, on the island of Krk, in 1928. He started school in Baška. Beacuse of Italian occupation of Krk he became in 1942 part of Pioneers and was trying to sabotage occupators. As a 15-year-old teenager he became a member of the partisan army in Croatia (ZAVNOH). Severely injured in the battle of Ogulin, barely managed to survive. Treated in many hospitals, he returns to Senj and than to Baška. In 1944 he went to Vis, where he received the status of disabled. The Dalmatian NOB sends him to a teacher‘s course. He was teaching children in the liberated territories. Demobilized as a teacher in 1945, but was working in Zadar there for another two years. After that he passed the economics department of the Higher Maritime School in Rijeka. Send to work in Yugoslav maritime companies. For short practices send to London, where he was learning english. In 1961 he went to London to the AngloYugoslav Shipping Company, where he worked until 1984. He returned to Yugoslavia, where he became the general manager of the company Jadroagenta until his retirement in 1986.