# Out Distance > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Out_Distance > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Out_Distance.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Distance > Source revision: 1290361756 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1942 WWII Czech anti-Nazi operation This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Out Distance" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Czech. (December 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions. 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A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Polish Wikipedia article at [[:pl:Operacja Out Distance]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|pl|Operacja Out Distance}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message) Operation Out Distance Part of World War II Type Military operation Location Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Planned by Czechoslovak Ministry of Defence in London Target Gasworks in Prague Date 28 March 1942 (1942-03-28) Executed by Adolf Opálka, Karel Čurda and Ivan Kolařík **Operation Out Distance** was a [Czech resistance](/source/Czech_resistance_to_Nazi_occupation) group active during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). It was dispatched by Special Group D of the Ministry of Defence of the [Czechoslovak government in exile](/source/Czechoslovak_government-in-exile) in London. The group operated in the [Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia](/source/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia), a region of occupied [Czechoslovakia](/source/Czechoslovakia).[1] - [Adolf Opálka](/source/Adolf_Op%C3%A1lka) - [Karel Čurda](/source/Karel_%C4%8Curda), became a [Nazi collaborator](/source/Collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany_and_Fascist_Italy) - [Ivan Kolařík](/source/Ivan_Kola%C5%99%C3%ADk) ## Operations At 2 AM on 28 March 1942, the group parachuted from a British [Halifax](/source/Handley_Page_Halifax) aircraft which also carried the unsuccessful group Zink. Their objectives included sabotaging gasworks in [Prague](/source/Prague), delivering radio-sets to other resistance fighters, and guiding bombers to the [Škoda Works](/source/%C5%A0koda_Works) in [Plzeň](/source/Plze%C5%88).[2] Due to a navigation error they landed in [Ořechov](/source/O%C5%99echov_(Jihlava_District)), not their intended destination, resulting in the loss of significant material and pursuit by the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo). Consequently, the group members decided to split and operate independently. [Ivan Kolařík](/source/Ivan_Kola%C5%99%C3%ADk), a member of the group, committed suicide on 1 April 1942, after losing his fake ID, in a desperate attempt to shield his family from reprisals following the compromise of his cover. First Lieutenant [Adolf Opálka](/source/Adolf_Op%C3%A1lka) and [Karel Čurda](/source/Karel_%C4%8Curda) travelled to Prague to join [Operation Anthropoid](/source/Operation_Anthropoid), aimed at assassinating high ranking German [SS](/source/Schutzstaffel) official [Reinhard Heydrich](/source/Reinhard_Heydrich). Upon joining group Silver A, Opálka was tasked with commanding the parachute groups. The operation [successfully eliminated Heydrich](/source/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich), but in the aftermath, as mass executions started during the second martial law, Čurda sought refuge with his mother in Nová Hlína. Unable to withstand the physical and emotional strain and seeking to protect his family, Čurda betrayed his military oath by providing the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo) with information after an announcement promising leniency for such intelligence. This led to the discovery of the assassins’ hideout at Prague's [Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral](/source/Ss._Cyril_and_Methodius_Cathedral).[3] A fierce battle ensued, resulting in the death or suicide of Opálka and other resistors. Čurda subsequently assisted the Gestapo in identifying the bodies of fellow parachutists, receiving a portion of the 10 million [Reichsmark](/source/Reichsmark) reward offered by the occupiers. After the war, Karel Čurda was apprehended and brought before an extraordinary people's court, which found him guilty of [treason](/source/Treason). He was sentenced to death and subsequently executed by [hanging](/source/Hanged) at [Pankrác Prison](/source/Pankr%C3%A1c_Prison) on 29 April 1947. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Keary, F.E. (2022). *SOE in Czechoslovakia: The Special Operations Executive’s Czech Section in WW2—An Official History*. Pen & Sword Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781399082754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781399082754). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Burian, Michal; Knžek, Aleš; Rajlich, Jiří; Stehlík, Eduard (2007). [*Atentát*](https://www.army.cz/assets/files/9952/atentat_cz.pdf) (PDF). Prague: [Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic](/source/Ministry_of_Defence_(Czech_Republic)). pp. 54, 76. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-80-7278-411-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-80-7278-411-0). Retrieved 7 February 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Karel Curda"](https://www.ww2inprague.com/articles/karel-curda). *ww2inprague*. Retrieved 7 February 2023. ## External links - (in Czech) [Out Distance parachute memorial](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718191806/http://www.vysocina-news.cz/clanek/sedesat-pet-let-od-seskoku-u-orechova/) - (in Czech) [Who was who in Czechoslovak history](http://www.libri.cz/databaze/kdo20/list.php?od=c2&start=21&count=20) v t e Czechoslovakia in World War II Government Government-in-exile Edvard Beneš (President) Jan Šrámek (Prime Minister) Jan Masaryk (Foreign minister) František Moravec (Chief of Intelligence) Protectorate (Office-holders) Nazi Konstantin von Neurath, Reinhard Heydrich, Kurt Daluege, Wilhelm Frick (Reichsprotektor) Karl Hermann Frank (Chief of Police) Czech Emil Hácha (President) Alois Eliáš, Jaroslav Krejčí, Richard Bienert (Prime minister) Emanuel Moravec Slovak Republic Jozef Tiso (President) Vojtech Tuka (Prime Minister) Ferdinand Čatloš (Minister of Defence) Resistance Actions Anthropoid (1942) Vrba–Wetzler report (1944) Slovak National Uprising (1944) May Uprising of the Czech people Prague uprising (1945) Czech Radio Groups Jan Žižka partisan brigade Obrana národa Out Distance Slovak partisans Slovak Insurgent Air Force Working Group Military Battles Sudeten (1938) Liptaň (1938) Carpatho-Ukraine (1939) Čajánek's barracks (1939) Slovak–Hungarian (1939) Dukla Pass (1944) Bratislava–Brno Offensive (1945) Prague Offensive (1945) Slivice (1945) Racibórz (1945) Operation B (1945) War crimes 17 November (1939) Kobylisy Lidice Životice (1944) Kremnička and Nemecká (1944–45) Ploština (1945) Holocaust Sudetenland Protectorate Slovakia Carpathian Ruthenia Sereď concentration camp Theresienstadt Ghetto Units Western Czechoslovak Legion RAF Squadrons 310 311 312 313 11th Infantry Battalion 1st Armoured Brigade Soviet 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps 1st Czechoslovak Mixed Air Division Axis Freiwillige Schutzstaffel Hlinka Guard Emergency Divisions Government Army Slovak Air Force Slovak Army Topics Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II Fall Grün Munich Agreement Sudetenland Sudeten Germans Western betrayal Category --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Out Distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Distance) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Distance?action=history)). 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