Event commemorates 81 years since airdrop of Out Distance parachutists

A commemorative event marking 81 years since the deployment of the Out Distance Czech resistance group during the Second World War took place in Ořechov near Jihlava on Saturday.

In March 1942, the members of the group were airdropped into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to help prepare the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich.

Due to a navigation error, the group did not land where they had planned. One of its members committed suicide a month after landing, while two others went to Prague and joined the Operation Anthropoid, which eventually succeeded in assassinating Heydrich.