The Comet connection : escape from Hitler's Europe
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The Comet connection : escape from Hitler's Europe
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- The Comet connection : escape from Hitler's Europe
- Title remainder
- escape from Hitler's Europe
- Statement of responsibility
- George Watt
- Subject
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- Belgien
- Belgium
- Biography
- Electronic books
- Escapes
- Escapes -- Belgium
- Flight engineers
- Flight engineers -- United States -- Biography
- Geschichte 1943
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
- HISTORY -- Military | Aviation
- Military operations, Aerial -- American
- Personal narratives -- American
- Underground movements, War
- 1939 - 1945
- United States, Army Air Forces
- United States, Army Air Forces -- Biography
- Watt, George (Ingenieur)
- Watt, George, 1913-1994
- Watt, George, 1913-1994
- Widerstand
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium
- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In November 1943, George Watt, Flying Fortress gunner, parachuted out of his burning bomber and landed in a village in Nazi-occupied Belgium. The villagers risked their lives to hide him in the field, sneaking him past the German patrols, and bringing him safely to Brussels, where he connected with the Comet Line, the rescue arm of the Belgian resistance. While hiding in ""sale houses"" in Brussels, Watt had a ringside view of bold acts of defiance by Belgian patriots against the German occupation. From Brussels he traveled by rail past Gestapo control to Bordeaux, rode a bicycle through southe
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- digitized
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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