Background
Jindřich Svoboda was born in Jungmannova Street in Třebíč.
Jindřich Svoboda was born in Jungmannova Street in Třebíč.
In the year 1936 he attended the Military Aviation School in Prostějov.
At an early age, his family moved to Zámostí where they lived in Number. When his Czechoslovakian 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 cr 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 Royal Air Force who were born in Třebíč.
119. He was a member of the Junák association (Association of Scouts and Guides of the Czechoslovakian Republic) and his nickname was Horse.