Clouds prevented paratroopers from repeating a parachute jump of the operation Anthropoid whose Czechoslovak members were airlifted from Britain to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in order to kill Heydrich, and landed near Nehvizdy.
The event that was to commemorate Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik, the most important members of the group from the Czechoslovak army in Britain, was attended by some 300 people.
Michal Burian, from the Military History Institute, said Kubis and Gabcik had been originally supposed to jump somewhere near Plzen, west Bohemia.
However, this did not succeed because the British pilots, guided by illumination of towns, evidently mistook Plzen for Prague.
The weather was also different than supposed as there was already snow in the fields, Burian said.
"Thanks to their having landed here, they could join the Sokol resistance movement," Burian said.
On the night of December 29, 1941, three groups, codenamed Silver A, Silver B and Anthropoid, were airlifted to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
The group Silver A established contact with resistance fighter as well as radio communication with London and one of its members was involved in the plot that was to kill Heydrich.
The group Silver B was to deliver a radio transmitter to the home resistance, but it was damaged during the jump.
Gabcik and Kubis were the first to jump within the operation Anthropoid. They fulfilled the target of the operation on May 27, 1942, when they attacked Heydrich's car with a submachine gun and a hand-grenade in the Prague-Kobylisy district.
Heydrich was wounded with a shrapnel and died on June 4.
The killing was considered the biggest act of European domestic resistance during World War Two.
The Nazi regime then declared martial law in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, during which over 3,000 people died.
Author: CTKwww.ctk.cz
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