escape line

escape line

A planned route to allow personnel engaged in clandestine activity to depart from a site or area when possibility of compromise or apprehension exists.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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I missed Freeman's The Mighty Eighth, although the War Manual is cited, and Reanne Hemingway-Douglass's The Shelburne Escape Line, which contains a fuller account of the escape to England through the French Underground of B-17 crewman Ralph Patton, with whom Snyder trained.
After taking new identities and laying false trails, he left Europe in 1950 from Genoa for Argentina along a reliable and well-funded escape line for Nazi fugitives, helped by an elaborate network of German, Austrian, Italian, and Argentinian officials, Red Cross and Vatican representatives, shipping capitalists, and people smugglers.
Beow: The Escape line is handmade of polypropylene in China and comes with the non-skid backing attached.
Moreover, their symmetrical fractals of pseudo escape line are presented in Figures 6(c)-6(d) and Figures 7(c)7(d).
Bob, of Sandwich, Kent, was determined he'd get home and he was one of the lucky ones who was passed down an escape line, making an aston-ishing journey via Brussels and Paris and climbing across the Pyrenees into Spain.
Hippolyte 1940-41, by land and by sea 1942, the Cauney escape line, the Maca family, the Marathon camps in the Belgian Ardennes, and the ghost train.
Evader: The Epic Story of the First British Airman to Be Rescued by the Com'ete Escape Line in World War II by Derek Shuff.
He also suggested that MI9 would be interested in helping her develop an escape line. But Dedee had not come to talk about her trip.
The others including Dutch heroine Johanna Folmer, who ran an escape line in Dutch resistance and helped 300 airmen, service personnel and Nazi victims escape.
'This was remarkable because the person who provided information was the famous Lieutenant Commander Pat O'Leary RN - in reality a Belgian Army doctor, Albert Guerisse, founder of the Pat Escape Line.