WW2: Belgium's Comète escape line (Part 3)
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Interviewee name: Stan Hope & Bob Frost + Andrée Dumon OBE ("Nadine")
Date of event: 1 Jan 1943
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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
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from Stuart Prebble 30th Sep 2010, 05:34
You just can't help but be lost in admiration for these people, can you? What they went through! And they just talk abouit it in such matter-of-fact terms, when actually they were all utterly heroic. What am amazing coup to have got Nadine's story in here too, and what a privilege to have her on the Storyvault web-site. Thank you. SP
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