Videos tagged with Dédée
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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
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