Prague. Operation Anthropoid. Jozef Gabčík and Czech Jan Kubiš, who carried out the attack, are hunted by the Gestapo and SS. 750 SS men besiege the church where the two paratroopers, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, are besieged along with other members of the SOE. The firefight lasts two hours. According to one source, 14 SS men lose their lives. The church is riddled with machine gun fire and doused with tear gas. A fire truck is then called in to flood it. Kubiš is killed along with others in the firefight, while Gabčík commits suicide at the end of the fighting.
