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1942 saw sweeping changes in the way the Line operated with new personnel being recruited, prison breakouts and sea evacuations organised, and with London taking an active role in the Line's activities. In February O'Leary began using a group Spanish guides in Toulouse, run by Francisco Ponzan-Vidal, to get him across the Pyrenees. He was driven from Barcelona to Gibraltar to meet with James Langley who flew out from London, and Donald Darling who was newly transferred from Lisbon. Mario Prassinos was in charge of the Line in O'Leary's absence with Jean de La Olla responsible for rebuilding the northern network following a wave of arrests in Lille and Paris. Also, in March 1942 the two hundred and thirty-nine (Detachment W) inmates at St Hippolyte were transferred to the more secure Fort de la Rivere at la Turbie in the hills above Nice. "
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" Apparently my great-uncle and his crewmates had stumbled across some French citizens who were connected to the so-called "Pat Line," an escape route founded by a Belgian resistance member to get downed Allied pilots back to England. The five SUSFU crewmembers were eventually taken on trains to Paris and taken to a safe house by a resistance member named Jean de la Olla, to await transport to Tours. They made it to the Tours station, but after they left the larger train from Paris to get on a smaller local train, they heard a voice with a German accent tell them, "Les mains en l'air, vous etes faits!" ("Put your hands up - you are taken"). A double agent named Roger Le Neveu had infiltrated the Pat Line and in addition to my great-uncle and his four crewmates, various French citizens were arrested by the Germans."
goknitinyourhat.blogspot.com Laurent le mardi 06 octobre 2009 Contribution au livre ouvert de Jean Marcellin de la Olla | |
