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      • Armstrong, Rev. James Edwin
      • Babcock, Lawrence W.
      • Baldwin, Vernon L., Jr.
      • Berger, Marvin
      • Blood, Arlie James
      • Boornazian, James G.
      • Borst, Robert G.
      • Burley, Edward A.
      • Call, Glen Sterling
      • Chichester, Stanley
      • Cobb, Neal T.
      • Cook, Jetty R.
      • Coss, Wesley
      • Elisco, Morris
      • Fassoulis, Satiris “Sonny”
      • Fenn, Forrest
      • Fisher, Charles A.
      • Gerritz, Frederick A.
      • Gillett, Roland
      • Halliburton, Edward W.
      • Hatch, Lewis M.
      • Heafner, H.L., Jr.
      • Hix, James Henry, Jr.
      • Holwegner, Roland Lewis
      • Hooper, Odell
      • Hyson, G. Gerald
      • Jones, Harley M.
      • Karnezis, Demetrios “Jim”
      • Katsaros, John
      • Kaufman, Hector A.
      • Kaveney, Frederick T.
      • Kelley, Ernest Robert (Bob)
      • Martin, Clyde J.
      • Medina, Sr., Francis Xavier
      • Moen, Milton
      • Munsen, Richard Stanley
      • Patton, Ralph K.
      • Powell, James Wallace
      • Provonsha, William “Bill”
      • Screws, Charles
      • Sherk, Raymond (Ray) John Frederick
      • Smith, Richard “Dick” Mansfield
      • Stepnitz, Stanley E.
      • Sweatt, Robert Houston
      • Vasquez, John
      • Yankus, Thomas “Tom” Lawrence, Sr.
      • Yeager, Charles (“Chuck”) Elwood
      • Zeeman, Rudy
    • Helpers
      • Belgium
        • DeGreef, Jeanine
        • Dumon-Ugeux, Michou (Aline or Micheline)
        • Grandjean, Jacques
        • Hanotte, Henriette (“Monique”)
        • Maréchal, Elsie
        • Puglis, Olga M.
      • China
        • Liu, Tung-Sheng
      • France
        • Mr. Jean Voileau
        • Dassie, Jean
        • Folliot, Roger
        • Frisque, Agnes
        • Selas, Adrienne
      • Germany
        • Loens, Curt
      • Netherlands
        • Folmer, Joke
        • Lelivelt, Mia
        • Vrij, Jacques
    • Friends
      • Bruce Clyde Bolinger
      • David, Lenora M. “Scotty”
      • DelGuidice, Alberta
      • Forrester, Cynthia
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    • The Cooler King
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    • “‘George’ Was Busy Helping Airmen”
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    • “Serbian Rescuers Aided U.S. Crews”
    • “WWII Veterans Honor Croatian”
    • A Dream Comes True for Joe Maloney
    • Joe Puts Together His Story
    • Operation Halyard
    • “I Was There” (Slovenia)
    • “Zvonko” Led Halyard Mission
    • A 1995 Return to Serbia
    • Charles L. Davis
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    • December 31, 1943, Bombing Mission, Southwest France
    • Dit is Mijn Vader!
    • Eighth Air Force
      • Eighth Air Force in WWII
      • Eighth Air Force Historical Society
      • National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
      • A Tour of the Eighth Air Force Control Tower
    • Escape and Evasion Air War Symposium
    • Escape and Evasion Articles
      • ‘Evader’ Author Recalls Days of World War II
      • “Escape Artists”
      • “Friends & Allies”
      • “From American Airman to Polish Infantryman”
      • “House of Alphonse”, Operation Bonaparte
      • Mission Number Thirty-Three
      • “Saludo a la Bandera”
      • “Shot Down”
      • “Unique Group of Survivors”
      • “WWII Soldiers Get Chance to Thank Rescuers”
    • Escape and Evasion Reports at the National Archives
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    • Escape Route Maps
    • France: Maps of Occupied Zones
    • National Archives Focusing on WWII
    • National Personnel Records Center Fire
    • Phantom Train (Nazi Ghost Train)
    • POW Camps in WWII
    • Requesting Official Military Personnel Files & Other Sources
    • U.S. Airfields in the U.K.
    • War Graves
    • WWII Veterans’ Oral Histories
  • Escape and Evasion via Gibraltar
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    • Books About Escape and Evasion Via Switzerland
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  • Escape from the Japanese
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    • French Escape Lines List
    • Groupe Hoornaert-Dirix
    • Luctor et Emergo/Fiat Libertas
    • Marie-Claire Line
    • MI9/IS9 and MIS-X
    • Miscellaneous Escape Lines
    • MNB (Belgian National Movement/Mouvement National Belge)
    • Operation Marathon/Freteval Forest
    • PAT (Pat O’Leary) Line
    • Possum Line
    • Service EVA
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    • Smit-van der Heijden Line
    • Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee
    • Hornoy le Boourg and Amiens
  • Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS)
  • Evaders and Oranges, the Seville Escape Route
  • French Resistance
  • Humor and Air Force Band Concerts
    • Armed Services Humor
    • U.S. Air Force Band Concerts
  • Medal of Honor Recipients
  • Memoirs from WWII
    • “A B-17 CREW & HUNGARIAN HOSPITALITY – START OF A LASTING FRIENDSHIP”
    • “A Jewish New Yorker’s War Against Hitler”
    • “A Trip Back in Time” by Col. Frank Alfter (Ret.)
    • “A Young Boy and the ‘Good’ War” by Edouard Reniere
    • “Bailout Over France and the Journey Home” by Jack W. Stead
    • “Colditz in Close-Up” by Robin Charteris
    • “Escape Over the Pyrenees” by Catherine Ramognino Thorpe
    • “Eugene J. Bullard, Hero of Two World Wars”
    • “In the Footsteps of Bud Owens”
    • “Military Transport” by Joe Owens
    • 1st Lt Alfred M.L. Sanders’ Story
    • A Small Mistake – Large Effects
    • Charlotte Ambach Interview
      • Airmen Helped by Charlotte Ambach
      • Embroideries and Handicrafts Made by Prisoners Awaiting Execution
      • Decorations and Awards Received by Charlotte Ambach
    • Evasion of Lt. Russel Weyland; Memoirs of Helper Maurice Costa
    • Helene Gill, A Soldier Without Uniform
    • Mission 13: A Downed Pilot’s Escape from France
    • Three Die, Four Taken Prisoner, One Evades on 303rd’s Final Raid
    • Evade! The Ralph Patton Story
    • “Mission to Bucharest: Overdue on Return”
    • “POW and Escape” by William W. Provonsha
    • “Joel McPherson’s Wild Ride” by Bill Yenne
    • Last Mission: Bailout and Rescue in Luxembourg
    • Why I Never Spoke of the War
    • Flight to Freedom–The Story of How Two POWs, Bill Magrath and Oliver James, Escaped in 1941
    • Worry Aboard “Ole Worrybird”
    • Tom Got to Freedom, the Hard Way
    • “‘You Are Supposed to Be Dead'”, The Amazing Story Behind Bill McGinley’s Purple Heart”
    • My World War II Memoirs by Frederick J. Gerritz
    • The American Pilot Who Escaped a Nazi POW Camp in a Folke-Wolff
    • The True Story of the Great Escape of Lt. General Albert P. Clark
  • RCAF, RAF, RAAF
    • Canadian Evaders
    • Canadian Members & Friends
    • Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in WWII
    • Canadian Helpers of Evaders
    • Americans in the RCAF
    • Sources on RAF, RCAF, RAAF Evasion
  • Recognition for WWII Service
    • AFEES Congressional Gold Medal
      • Congressional Supporters of U.S. Air Forces Escape & Evasion Act
    • OSS Congressional Gold Medal Act
  • Resistance Museums
  • Restoration of WWII Aircraft
  • Reunions and Memorials
    • AFEES Flag at WWII Commemorations
    • AFEES Operation Home Run
    • Helper/Airman Reunions
    • Memorials to Allied Airmen in WWII
    • Memorials to and Citations of Comete Line Helpers
    • Newsletters by Other E&E Organizations
  • Traitors, Betrayers, Collaborators
  • War Graves
  • “To Holland” by Roy Carter (RCAF) and Other Poems

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