Shelburne Escape Line
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Shelburne Escape Line
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The Shelburne Escape Line (1944) was a resistance organisation in occupied France in the Second World War. The Shelburne Line, financed by the British intelligence agency MI9, helped Allied airmen shot down over France evade capture by the occupying Germans and return to Great Britain by boat from the coast of Brittany. For the Allies, the rescue of downed airmen had a practical as well as a humanitarian objective. Training new and replacement air crews was expensive and time-consuming. Rescuing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelburne_Escape_Line
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2024-02-06T19:22:15Z
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