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{{Infobox military person
| name = Adolf Opálka
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|1|4}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1942|6|18|1915|1|4}}
| birth_place= Rešice near [[Dukovany]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
| death_place= [[Prague]], [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]]
| image =Operace Anthropoid - Adolf Opálka.jpg
| caption =Lt. Adolf Opálka
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| publisher = Zrcadlo.info
| date = 2007-05-18
| accessdate = 2008-03-27 }}</ref>

Between 1932 and 1936, Opálka studied at the Commercial Academy and, shortly after his graduation in 1936, he joined the army of [[Czechoslovakia]].<ref name="army.cz">http://www.army.cz/mo/tisk/areport/2002/9/p5.htm</ref> After recruitment and training, he was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Regiment in [[Brno]] and shortly afterwards attended the Army Academy in [[Hranice
 (Přerov District)|Hranice]]. After graduation, Opálka joined the 2nd Mountain Regiment in [[Ružomberok]] as a [[lieutenant]].
The [[Munich Agreement]] ended Opálka's army career in his homeland, and he left Czechoslovakia with his cousin František Pospíšil. First traveling through [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] and France, they fled to North Africa, where they joined the [[French Foreign Legion]].<ref name="brno">{{cite web
| last = Menšíková
| first = Miroslava
| coauthors = Jiří Mikulka
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[[Category:1915 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Milan Rastislav Štefánik]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Commendation for Brave Conduct]]
[[Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion]]
[[Category:Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion]]