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    Escape and evasion lines in World War II helped people escape European countries occupied by Nazi Germany. The focus of most escape lines in Western Europe...
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  • MI9 (category War Office in World War II)
    department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945. During World War II it had two principal tasks: assisting in the escape of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) held...
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    performing escape and evasion. Such documents were secreted to prisoners of war by various means to aid in escape attempts. During World War II, these clandestine...
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    Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a training concept originally developed by the United States during World War II. It is best known...
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    Conscription evasion or draft evasion (American English) is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces...
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  • Mary Lindell (category World War II prisoners of war held by Germany)
    Lund, a Norwegian; and Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, a German. Comet line - World War II evasion line Escape and evasion lines (World War II) Nacht und Nebel Albert...
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  • Donald Darling (category Escapes and rescues during World War II)
    and return to Great Britain. Darling worked in Lisbon and Gibraltar. He financed and advised the escape and evasion lines which rescued soldiers and airmen...
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    Pat O'Leary Line (category World War II resistance movements)
    Banyuls-sur-Mer until her arrest in February 1943. Escape and evasion lines (World War II) Neave, Airey (1970). The Escape Room. New York: Doubleday. pp. xiii, 121...
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  • number of Axis prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II. The initials "P.G." denote Prigione di Guerra (Prison of War), often interchanged with...
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    Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German...
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  • large number of Jews and the high level of administration, which made it easy for the Germans to identify Jews. Escape and evasion lines to help Allied military...
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    German occupational forces." Escape and evasion lines (World War II) Hemingway-Douglass, Reanne (2014). The Shelburne Escape Line. Anacortes, Washington:...
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    ‘Great Escape’ attempt and were not able to participate. Even more secret than the strategic interrogation programme was Fort Hunt's escape and evasion (E&E)...
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    directionality and range, survival, evasion, and escape techniques. Good fieldcraft is especially important for the effectiveness and survival of infantry...
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    Blood chit (redirect from Escape chit)
    Fight And Win. Edited by Jon E. Lewis. p.166-Tactics And Techniques, Evasion, Capture And Escape. Robinson Publishing Ltd 1997. ISBN 1-85487-675-9 "Chit...
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    Comet Line (category World War II resistance movements)
    escape, and many of them lost ... it is not difficult to understand that over 50 years later tributes are still paid to the World War II helpers, and...
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  • Special Operations Executive (category World War II resistance movements)
    Escape and evasion lines (World War II) Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine John Dolphin CBE MI5 Operation Braddock Resistance during World War II...
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  • Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Escape and evasion lines operated by civilian volunteers in France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Denmark helped about...
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    26. This assumes that Union and Confederate casualties are counted together; more Americans were killed in World War II than in either the Union or Confederate...
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    Andrée de Jongh (category Women in World War II)
    escape and evasion lines in World War II. They initially called themselves the DDDs after their last names. De Bliqui was arrested in April 1941 and later...
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    Christopher Hutton (category British Army personnel of World War II)
    manufacturers for escape and evasion equipment and devised methods by which such aids could be sent to prisoner of war camps. Many prisoners' escapes were assisted...
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  • Great Escape, 76 Allied POWs (primarily Commonwealth airmen) escaped from Stalag Luft III during World War II. 73 of the escapees were captured and fifty...
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    Nazi ghost train (category World War II prisoners of war)
    escapers and their escape lines, Western Europe. 1940-1945". MI9 and IS9 escape and evasion reports from the National Archives, Kew. MIS-X escape and...
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    Trix Terwindt (category Female resistance members of World War II)
    arranged by escape and evasion lines. If captured the airmen were put in prisoner of war camps; their guides and "helpers," often young Belgian and French...
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    – An Escape & Evasion Line in France in World War II. Retrieved 22 November 2015. Janes, Keith (2013). "Evasion in Brittany – Louis Nouveau and the Pat...
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  • A Bridge Too Far (film) (category American World War II films)
    Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the...
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    Christiaan Lindemans (category World War II spies for the Soviet Union)
    the Het Parool (The Spoken Word), the Dutch-Paris escape line run by John Henry Weidner and evasion networks within the jurisdiction of MI9. Lindemans...
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    French, and Japanese weapons from World War II and the First Indochina War, were largely armed and supplied by China, the Soviet Union, and its Warsaw...
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    Grigory Kotovsky (category Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War)
    destroyed by Romanian troops during World War II - Transnistria (World War II). In May 2016 Kotovsk was renamed Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion—Podilsk Raion in...
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  • Recondo (category Military education and training in the United States)
    tower and helicopter rappelling, ambush and escape-and-evasion techniques, and other field activities. The third week was spent in preparing and conducting...
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