Sentence examples for escape lines from inspiring English sources

Since the airmen also needed to be hidden in civilian houses for prolonged periods of time, escape lines were particularly vulnerable.

They want to have escape lines in place, should large numbers of British citizens find that the ATMs have stopped working, their travel company has gone bust, or Portugal is suddenly at war with France. .

The construction of what was called the Comet escape line was methodical from the outset.

Part of an escape line that smuggled downed Allied airmen out of the country, she took them on secret sightseeing tours of Paris.

Evidence of the chaos of escape lined the road out of town, in the charred frames of cars and trucks that were abandoned midescape.

In May 1941, Brooks was warned that he was under suspicion by the Vichy regime and made timely use of the escape line himself.

Brousse also worked with local Protestant and Catholic clergy as part of an escape line helping individual Jews, sometimes even entire families, to get across the nearby border into neutral Switzerland.

What made a young lawyer, Denise du Fournier, give up her refuge in Portugal and return to Paris early in the war to join the Comet escape line, helping to hide shot-down allied airmen?

Not only had Brooks's father been involved in secret missions during the first world war: when he returned to the Jura, he discovered that his aunt was engaged in running an escape line.

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For a while, Comet flourished alongside another Belgian escape line, known as Pat, which managed to send some 600 men to Britain before it was betrayed and wound up in 1942.