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    The Comet Line (French: Réseau Comète; 1941–1944) was a Resistance organization in occupied Belgium and France in the Second World War. The Comet Line helped...
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    Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comète) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from...
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    the Comet Escape Line in World War II. From her house in Anglet in southwestern France, near the border with Spain, she led efforts by the Comet Line in...
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    Belgium during World War II. He infiltrated resistance groups, such as the Comet Line, and was responsible for the arrest of several leaders and more than 100...
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    of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with the Comet Escape Line. She and her husband Philippe helped 67 British and American airmen...
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  • (Goicoechea, Goikoetxe) (1898–1980) was a Basque who worked for the Comet Escape Line during World II. A smuggler by profession, he guided more than 200...
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  • was a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II with the Comet Line (Réseau Comète). Her surname often appears misspelled as "Dumont" in historical...
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    Revised front fender trim Comet side emblems moved from front fenders to rear fenders Comet S-22 model added to Comet line New Comet logo emblem for roof quarter...
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  • active in the Belgian Resistance during World War II. As a member of the Comet Line, she helped downed Allied airmen evade capture by German forces. After...
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  • train as a nurse. Aged 17 at the start of World War II, she joined the Comet Line escape network for Allied airmen and others, of which her father and sister...
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  • Look up Comet or comet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. Comet or The Comet may also refer...
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    O'Leary Line. Some escape lines were created and operated by civilians as grass-roots efforts to help people fleeing the Nazis, such as Comet, Dutch-Paris...
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    intermediate car. For 1960 and 1961, Comet was its own brand sold by Lincoln-Mercury "Comet". The compact Comet shared a naming convention associated...
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  • fledging Pat line exfiltrate soldiers from France to Spain. In Nazi-occupied Belgium, Belgians created the Comet Line. MI9 became aware of Comet in September...
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  • escape route over the Pyrenees for downed Allied airmen was based on the Comet line of 24-year-old Andrée de Jongh, a Belgian woman who helped aviators and...
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  • into Spain were "full of admiration for her." MI6 agreed to finance the Comet Line. Darling gave de Jongh the code name "Postman" and her organization became...
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    Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype...
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    quickly deteriorated. Elsie Maréchal, a young Belgian who worked with the Comet Line, was a prisoner at Ravensbrück from 1943 to 1945. She described the conditions:...
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    Comet Donati, or Donati's Comet, formally designated C/1858 L1 and 1858 VI, is a long-period comet named after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista...
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    Comet Kohoutek (pronounced "ko-HU-tek" /koʊˈhuːtɛk/, or "ko-ho-tek" /koʊhoʊtɛk/), formally designated as C/1973 E1, 1973 XII and 1973f, is a comet that...
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    (code named Michele, Melle, and Mitchell) was a guide in Belgium for the Comet Line which helped allied airmen shot down in World War II over German-occupied...
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  • advancing after the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944. The Comet Line, a Belgian/French escape line, operated the forest camps with financial and logistical...
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  • was an attaché at the British Embassy in Spain. He worked with the Comet Escape Line to help allied airmen who had been shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe...
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    woman leader being Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Andrée de Jongh, head of the Comet Line which operated in France, was Belgian. Marie-Louise Dissard was born in...
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    supporting underground escape organizations, such as the Pat O'Leary Line and the Comet Line in occupied Europe, with equipment, agents, and money. They were...
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    The Comet railcar is a class of locomotive-hauled railcars that was first designed in the late 1960s by Pullman-Standard as a modern commuter car for...
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    The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to...
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    The Silver Comet was a streamlined passenger train inaugurated on May 18, 1947, by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (Seaboard Coast Line after merger with...
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  • and harboured the fugitives in her house. Aguirre also worked for the Comet Line, headed by Elvire de Greef in southern France, sheltering fleeing airmen...
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  • World War II, he served in the Belgian Resistance as a leader with the Comet line, which was organized to help Allied soldiers and airmen escape German-occupied...
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