Jindřich Svoboda
Male, Deceased Person
1917 – 1942
Who was Jindřich Svoboda?
Jindřich Svoboda was a Czech colonel in memoriam, a captain of the bomber of the 311th Squadron RAF.
Jindřich Svoboda was born in Jungmannova Street in Třebíč. At an early age, his family moved to Zámostí where they lived in No. 119. He was a member of the Junák association and his nickname was Horse. In the year 1936 he attended the Military Aviation School in Prostějov. When his Czech homeland was in danger he joined the air force as a volunteer.
On 24 January 1940 Svoboda went to Slovakia and from there he travelled via Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria and North Africa to France and then to Great Britain where he was trained as a bomber pilot. He had to his credit 24 operational flights in total, 16 of them as a captain.
His last flight was a raid on Bremen. Their Vickers Wellington was shot down and crashed in the Nederlands. J. Svoboda, J. Brož and R. Mašek died while K. Batelka, Z. Sichrovský and J. Šnajdr survived. Jindřich Svoboda is buried in the military cemetery at Vredenhof in Tilburg in Nederlands.
The Junák association of Třebíč and in 2003 the footbridge in Třebíč are named after him. In 2006 a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the townhall building in Třebíč in memory of aviators of the RAF who were born in Třebíč.
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