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Andree de Johgn was born in 1916, Belgium.
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Andree de Johgn was educated locally.
Career
After escorting three downed flyers from Belgium to the British consul in Bilbao, Spain, in Aug 1941 she organized the “Comet Line,” an escape route from Brussels through France into Spain. Personally making more that 36 frontier crossings, and being questioned by the Gestapo in 1941, she was arrested near the Spanish border in Jan 1943. Mile de Jongh was interrogated and imprisoned, first at Bayonne and Biarritz (where several rescue attempts were made), then in Fresnes near Paris, and finally in a German concentration camp. The Gestapo never discovered that the attractive young woman was responsible for saving at least 800 Allied officers and men. Her father and 23 agents were captured and executed, but she survived to work with lepers in Addis Ababa. Airey Neave sketches her accomplishments in Little Cyclone and Saturday at M.I.9.
