Join speaker John J O’Leary IV as he regals attendees in an astounding story of war and mystery. In the summer of 1942, during the height of World War II, an assassination attempt was made on SS-Obergruppenfürher Reinhard Heydrich. As a result, Daimler-Benz was ordered to produce twenty bulletproof sedans (supercharged 540K models) called AKTION P for increased security. Today, the only place the public can view a surviving AKTION P from WWII is the National Technical Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1994, Richard Reuter (O’Leary’s father-in-law) was part of a trio of Connecticut residents that acquired the AKTION P in Tallinn, Estonia, in exchange for an education in the United States for his daughter.

Sponsored by Christine and Eugene Shugrue.