Saturday, March 21, 2020

JOSEF VALCIK, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao


JOSEF VALCIK, MEMBER OF ANTHRAPOID TEAM TRAINED IN ENGLAND TO ASSASSINATE NAZI SENIOR OFFICER REINHARD HEYDRICH IN PRAGUE .
Heydrich who was the chief administrator of a Czech province a tyrant and mass killer and he was killed in an ambush of his car by the assault team members at a road bend ON 27 May 1942. The car was badly damaged when Jan Kubis one of the assault team member lobbed a very sensitive and anti tank grenade at the car when the British sten gun of JOSEF GABCIK another assault member got jammed when he tried to shoot at the officer when car halted.
JOSEF VALCIK died in the nazi retaliation and follow up action and gun fight with the gestapo team at a church in Prague.

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