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Army Blood Transfusion Service during WW2
During the Second World War Patience Maxwell was a driver in the Women's Transport Service (FANY). In this section of a much longer recording she describes driving for the Army Blood Transfusion Service as part of a team working in the West Country collecting blood from volunteer civilians. Earlier in WW2 Patience had driven a lorry for an army bomb disposal unit in Bristol and, aged 23, received a commendation for bravery after driving three unexploded German bombs out of the city so they could be safely blown up.
WW2: Belgium's Comète escape line (Part 3)
Included in these third and final excerpts of the first-hand accounts by RAF 'evaders' Bob Frost and Stan Hope we also hear from Andrée Dumon - codenamed "Nadine". After the war she received the OBE for her work as a Comète escape line courier, and they all talk about another brave young Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, known as Dédée, who founded the Comète escape line with her father. For more information on this subject go to: www.escapelines.com AND www.belgiumww2.info
WW2: Belgium's Comète escape line (Part 2)
Watch this and then Part 3 of the story to find out what happened to the WW2 'evaders' Bob Frost and Stan Hope. They were both RAF crew members who had been forced to bale out respective their stricken aircraft over Belgium in September and December 1942. They also talk about the brave young Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, known as Dédée, who with her father founded the Comète escape line. For more information on this go to: www.escapelines.com AND www.belgiumww2.info
WW2: Belgium's Comète escape line (Part 1)
During WW2 Stan Hope and Bob Frost were RAF crew members - Stan was navigator and reconnaissance camera operator in a Mosquito, and Bob was an air-gunner in a Wellington bomber. In 1942, on separate missions three months apart, each had to bale out over occupied Belgium; and with the help of the secret escape line known as Comète were able to avoid capture by the occupying German forces. The courageous members of this part of the resistance helped Allied servicemen get out of Belgium, and enabled Bob and Stan to each make their separate and risky journeys through Belgium into occupied France to reach the Pyrenees. Only one of them made it into neutral Spain and then freedom, and the other was betrayed and captured; but you'll have to watch the next parts of the story to find out what happened to each of them. For more information about the Comète escape line go to: www.escapelines.com AND www.belgiumww2.info
Operation Mincemeat (aka The Man Who Never Was)
Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place. Patricia Davies worked as a secretary in the department of Britain's Naval Intelligence which, working with MI5, hatched this outrageously ambitious and complex deception which proved successful. She provides some brief but fascinating anecdotes about the people responsible for the plan. This involved dropping a body with fake military ID into the sea off Spain, to be washed up and found by a known German agent who could then acquire the false invasion plans carried by this 'British officer' who in fact did not exist. This story was depicted in the classic 1956 film "The Man Who Never Was" based on the book of the same name written by Patricia's wartime boss Ewan Montagu; and it has been told far more comprehensively in the very recent book "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macintyre.