Evader Accounts

[Chris Goss]

I keep getting these requests-people must have time on their hands! Can anyone point me to accounts or books on evading through the Pyrenees during WW2? Apart from doing the Chemin de Liberté twice a number of years ago, that is as far as my detailed knowledge goes

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

Interesting account of some of the crossings, here:

http://evasioncomete.org/TxtPassNew.html

Col.

[jschreiber]

Hello
You have "The Shelburne escape line" by Reanne Hemingway-Douglas, unexpensive

I will look to find more, probably in French
Regards
J Schreiber

[jschreiber]

Some escape reports are available at the NARA

An example :

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5554652

The entry point is https://catalog.archives.gov/search?...tabType=online

Some are detailed, others not.
Regards
J Schreiber

[gilles collaveri]

Hi Chris

have a look at Chuck Yeager's "an autobiograhy" where he explains how he went throught the Pyrénées mountains, with an airman colleague;

He almost died there, it was really an ordeal he describes it very well.

Cheers

Gilles

[alieneyes1]

Oliver Clutton-Brock's "RAF Evaders" which, despite the title, includes USAAF evaders.

[RSwank]

A good site with lots of information and links:


http://www.conscript-heroes.com/

A useful section on the above is a multipage list of the MISX escape acccounts that can be found on the NARA site listed in post 4 above by using the last name.


http://www.conscript-heroes.com/Art38-MIS-X.html

[Chris Goss]

Thanks all-I have passed all of this on

[Alain57]

Hello ,

I have a book in Dutch named " Gewone Helden de Dutch Paris Ontsnappingslijn 1942 by Megan Koreman from 2017
ISBN 9789058755568.

Regards
Alain57